Re: killing a kernel thread.

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 10:48:44 EST


On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, David Woodhouse wrote:

> Ooh ooh RBJcode. I'm going to be fair and only pick one of the errors,
> leaving many more for others to play the game too...
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:51 -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > __u32 volatile status;
>
> > while (!test_bit(0,&priv->status)) {
>
> test_bit() and friends work on 'unsigned long' not uint32_t.
>
> --
> dwmw2
>

Well it isn't RBJcode. It's Intel code. Look who wrote it
before you give me any credit, especially your kind of "credit".

Also, Intel machines have 32-bit longs which are identical to
32-bit ints and this was an Intel driver........

Have fun growing up.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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