On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:50:00PM -0700, karl malbrain wrote: > chrdev_open issues a lock_kernel() before calling uart_open. > > It would appear that servicing the blocking open request uart_open goes to > sleep with the kernel locked. Would this shut down subsequent access to > opening "/dev/tty"???
No. lock_kernel() is automatically released when a process sleeps. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/
