From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275375AbTHGOxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:53:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275376AbTHGOxY (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:53:24 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:27575 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275375AbTHGOwI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:52:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3F32678B.7020407@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:51:55 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Javier Achirica CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] airo driver: fix races, oops, etc.. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Javier Achirica wrote: > I've been studying the problem for a while and I've implemented a solution > using a single kernel thread and a wait queue for synchronization. I've > tested it and looks like it works fine. It can be used both in 2.4 > and 2.6 kernels. Before submitting a patch with it I'd like someone with > experience in this kind of code to take a look at it just in case I'm > doing something dumb. Jeff? :-) Unless the patch is huge (100K or more), post it to linux-kernel, and CC it to me and Benjamin Herrenschmidt. Jeff