Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 16:31:37 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> `the class of devices in question' was cryptographic devices, and possibly > other transactional DSPs. I don't consider audio to be transactional. > in any case, you can do transactional things with two threads, as long > as they each have their own fd on the device. Think of the fd as your > transaction handle.
Thats a bit pathetic. So I have to fill my app with expensive pthread locks or hack all the drivers and totally change the multi-open sematics in the ABI
I think I'll stick to ioctl cleaned up
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