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On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 17:19 -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: > I didn't get any comments on this, so I assume it is correct. > I fixed the spelling of Arjan's name (profuse apologies) in > this version, but otherwise it is the same. > > I'm sorry to cause so much trouble with this. > > -Corey > > > > Arjan van de Ven pointed out that the changeover to the driver model > in the IPMI driver had some bugs in it dealing with the release > function and cleanup. Then Russell King pointed out that you can't > put release functions in the same module as the unregistering code. > > This patch fixes those problems and also adds a semaphore around the > BMC functions and converts the BMC counter to a kref, which I meant to > do earlier, but didn't write down :(. please use a mutex not a semaphore... semaphores for mutex code are deprecated - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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