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
next prev parent 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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