On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:12:19 +0100 (CET)
Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > It's a fairly daft thing to do. I think it'd be saner to teach rtc about
> > test_and_set_bit() personally..
>
>
> From: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
>
> RTC: convert mutex to bitfield
>
> RTC code is using mutex to assure exclusive access to /dev/rtc.
> This is however wrong usage, as it leaves the mutex locked when
> returning into userspace, which is unacceptable.
>
> Convert rtc->char_lock into bit operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]>
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
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