Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from drivers' release functions | Date | Sat, 1 Dec 2001 09:52:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> opens, we CAN announce we are closer, and nothing else will be any more > broken than it was before we started. As I said in an earlier post (and > I don't think anybody disagrees): this is an incremental task. Any
This is why we have a development tree. Its moving things in the right direction which is important. I suspect many drivers will want to use semaphores rather than atomic counts however, to ensure that an open doesn't complete while a previous release is still shutting down hardware
Alan
- 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/
| |