From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] Replacing check_region with request_region
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:00:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070122155959.GC5865@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1169477126.3554.18.camel@wriver-t81fb058.linuxcoe>
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:15:26PM +0530, Vignesh Babu BM wrote:
> Hi,
> I found the following instances of check_region in the 2.6.20-rc5
> code.
> I also found that these files also have request_region in some parts.
> So I was just wondering if they were left there for some reason....but
> as part of the deprecated API they have to be removed at some point of
> time right?
> If they need to be changed then I would go ahead and make a patch.
> Thanks...
From LDD3, Chapter 9:
"Here, the return value is a negative error code if the given ports are not
available. This function is deprecated because its return value provides no
guarantee of whether an allocation would succeed; checking and later
allocating are not an atomic operation"
I think they should ..
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-22 14:57 [KJ] Replacing check_region with request_region Vignesh Babu BM
2007-01-22 16:00 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-01-22 16:35 ` Jesper Juhl
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