On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:08:58PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
>
>> The pps_event() is now protected by a spinlock against
>> pps_register_source() and pps_unregister_source()...
>
> Locks protect data, not code. It may make more sense to identify the
> specific data being protected by the spinlock.
What do you mean? Did you find an error into my patch? :-o
Functions pps_event() and
pps_register_source()/pps_unregister_source() take accesso to shared
data, that's why I used spinlocks.
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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