Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] Make DRM use the tasklet is-sched API

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Fri Jun 22 2007 - 03:12:10 EST


On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 08:49 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:36 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 00:00 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > plain text document attachment (tasklet-driver-hacks.patch)
> > > Update the DRM driver to use the new tasklet API, which does not rely
> > > on the tasklet implementation details.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > > Index: linux-2.6.21-rt9/drivers/char/drm/drm_irq.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- linux-2.6.21-rt9.orig/drivers/char/drm/drm_irq.c
> > > +++ linux-2.6.21-rt9/drivers/char/drm/drm_irq.c
> > > @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ void drm_locked_tasklet(drm_device_t *de
> > > static DECLARE_TASKLET(drm_tasklet, drm_locked_tasklet_func, 0);
> > >
> > > if (!drm_core_check_feature(dev, DRIVER_HAVE_IRQ) ||
> > > - test_bit(TASKLET_STATE_SCHED, &drm_tasklet.state))
> > > + tasklet_is_scheduled(&drm_tasklet))
> > > return;
> > >
> > > spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->tasklet_lock, irqflags);
> > >
> >
> >
> > No sense in having a patch just for this, may as well merge this with
> > patch 3 ..
>
> Wrong. patch 3 adds the API and this one makes use of it. Stevens split
> makes perfectly sense.

Clearly it doesn't make sense to me ;) .. The patches are too small to
split them up that way ..

Daniel

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