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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Misbah khan <misbah_khan@engineer.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Is it safe to use these Linux function (test_bit(), set_bit(), clear_bit()) in character device driver for 2.6.10 ppc kernel.
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:04:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FBD483.6090403@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12916782.post@talk.nabble.com>

Misbah khan wrote:
> Hi all I am using "test_bit(),set_bit(),clear_bit() etc" API functions 
> provided by the Linux kernel. I want to know that if anybody is used it 
> and have full faith in its operation then please let me know. Driver in 
> the while loop is calling these API's hence i want to make sure that its 
> operation will remain stable.

They're used all over the place.  Is there anything about them that you 
find suspect?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27  8:12 Is it safe to use these Linux function (test_bit(), set_bit(), clear_bit()) in character device driver for 2.6.10 ppc kernel Misbah khan
2007-09-27 16:04 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2007-09-28  4:28   ` Misbah khan
2007-09-28  5:19     ` Jeff Mock
2007-09-28  9:12       ` Misbah khan
2007-09-30 14:54         ` Misbah khan
2007-10-01  4:25           ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-01  5:38             ` Misbah khan
2007-10-01 13:55               ` Olof Johansson
2007-10-04 13:02                 ` Misbah khan
2007-10-04 16:42                   ` Grant Likely
2007-09-28 16:09     ` Scott Wood

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