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Message-ID: <46535F56.1010009@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 23:23:34 +0200
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@...e.lp0.eu>
CC: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@...il.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: use mutex instead of semaphore in RocketPort driver
Simon Arlott napsal(a):
> On 22/05/07 21:06, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> would the following resolve the problem?
>>
>> if(mutex_lock_interruptible(&info->write_mtx)) return
>> -ERESTARTSYS
>>
>> thanks for your comments
>>
>
> No. At least one user of tty_operations/tty_driver's write function
> doesn't check the return value so it would never be retried, mutex_lock
> should be used instead.
Who? There are some drivers that returns ERESTARTSYS from write function.
regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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