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    FromDenis Vlasenko <>
    SubjectRe: + update-mm-acx-driver-to-version-0331.patch added to -mm tree
    DateWed, 1 Feb 2006 09:07:00 +0200
    On Wednesday 01 February 2006 07:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
    > 
    > > -struct wlandevice {
    > > +struct acx_device {
    > > +	/* most frequent accesses first (dereferencing and cache line!) */
    > > +
    > > +	/*** Locking ***/
    > > +	struct semaphore	sem;
    > > +	spinlock_t		lock;
    > > +#if defined(PARANOID_LOCKING) /* Lock debugging */
    > > +	const char		*last_sem;
    > > +	const char		*last_lock;
    > > +	unsigned long		sem_time;
    > > +	unsigned long		lock_time;
    > > +#endif
    > > +
    > 
    > any chance of turning this into a mutex instead?
    > (and you get some of the debugging for free instead that way)
    
    (/me is reading Ingo's docs...)
    
    Nice :)
    
    Yes, we will do the conversion later. For now we want our driver
    usable on vanilla 2.6.10.
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    vda
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