>> You can't do that. > >Exactly why not? Assuming there are zero users left in the kernel..... >(which highly obviously is a prerequisite for even thinking about such a >step) Documentation/mutex-design.txt: * - mutexes may not be used in irq contexts I need some locking strategy within irq contexts, and that suggests semaphores do the job. Jan Engelhardt -- | Software Engineer and Linux/Unix Network Administrator | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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