linux-kernel - Re: [Fwd: Corrections please ...]

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Date:	Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:07:35 -0700
From:	Kevin Diggs <kevdig@...ersurf.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Corrections please ...]

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:53:51PM -0700, Kevin Diggs wrote:
> 
>>Could someone ... anyone take a look at these kernel doc additions?
> 
> .....
> 
>>+/**
>>+ * complete: - signals a single thread waiting on this completion
>>+ * @x:  holds the state of this particular completion
>>+ *
>>+ * This will wake up a single thread waiting on this completion. If  
>>multiple
> 
> 
> Your mailer appears to be wrapping lines.
> 
> 
>>+ * threads are waiting ???
>>+ */
>> void complete(struct completion *x)
>> {
>>        unsigned long flags;
> 
> 
> complete() will only wake one waiting thread. If there are multiple
> waiters, then further calls to complete() are required to wake them,
> or a single call to complete_all() could be used.
> 
> 
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(wait_for_completion);
>>
>>+/**

Take 2 ...

Files attached this time ...

kevin

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