Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:25:28 +0300 | From | "Cyrill Gorcunov" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] driver: ip27-rtc - convert ioctl to unlocked_ioctl |
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Thanks, Alexey for review, i'll make it updated tomorrow. (sorry for top-post)
On 1/14/08, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:32:23PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > This patch converts ioctl call to unlocked_ioctl form with > > explicit big-kernel-lock. Also it makes a bit of cleanup > > converting miscdevice structure initialization to C99 form. > > > > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> > > --- > > > > Any comments are welcome. > > This is untested code - i've no such chip on my laptop. > > > > Andi, i think we could use mutex to eliminate BKL, but not sure. > > Looks like it can be dropped here. All usage of rtc-> is done under > rtc_lock. Every other variable there is thread-local. >
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