Re: + update-mm-acx-driver-to-version-0331.patch added to -mm tree

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 07:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > -struct wlandevice {
> > +struct acx_device {
> > +	/* most frequent accesses first (dereferencing and cache line!) */
> > +
> > +	/*** Locking ***/
> > +	struct semaphore	sem;
> > +	spinlock_t		lock;
> > +#if defined(PARANOID_LOCKING) /* Lock debugging */
> > +	const char		*last_sem;
> > +	const char		*last_lock;
> > +	unsigned long		sem_time;
> > +	unsigned long		lock_time;
> > +#endif
> > +
> 
> any chance of turning this into a mutex instead?
> (and you get some of the debugging for free instead that way)

(/me is reading Ingo's docs...)

Nice :)

Yes, we will do the conversion later. For now we want our driver
usable on vanilla 2.6.10.
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vda
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