Re: All your drivers are belong to us

2008-05-08 Thread Detlev Zundel
Hi, > On Wed, 7 May 2008 17:42:51 -0400 > Sean MacLennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:30 +0200 >> "Detlev Zundel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > It also happened that a driver once posted for what the customer >> > thought was a completely specific device of his o

Re: All your drivers are belong to us [was WARNING: mutexes are preferredfor single holder semaphores]

2008-05-07 Thread Sean MacLennan
I have attached the driver in question below. This is *not* representative of PIKA board drivers in general. This driver was rewritten from scratch to work in 2.6.26, but still work on the 2.6.9 kernel in RedHatES 4. Since it was rewritten, it matches the kernel coding specs rather than PIKA's. Em

Re: All your drivers are belong to us [was WARNING: mutexes are preferredfor single holder semaphores]

2008-05-07 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 7 May 2008 17:42:51 -0400 Sean MacLennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:30 +0200 > "Detlev Zundel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It also happened that a driver once posted for what the customer > > thought was a completely specific device of his own today suppor

Re: All your drivers are belong to us [was WARNING: mutexes are preferredfor single holder semaphores]

2008-05-07 Thread Sean MacLennan
On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:36:30 +0200 "Detlev Zundel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It also happened that a driver once posted for what the customer > thought was a completely specific device of his own today supports > lots of different boards from at least four different manufacturers." > > The wor