On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:19 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It's a fairly daft thing to do. I think it'd be saner to teach rtc about > > test_and_set_bit() personally.. > > > From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RTC: convert mutex to bitfield > > RTC code is using mutex to assure exclusive access to /dev/rtc. > This is however wrong usage, as it leaves the mutex locked when > returning into userspace, which is unacceptable. > > Convert rtc->char_lock into bit operation. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
