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On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:29 +0200, Garcia Jérémie wrote:
> Hi everybody, I need your help one more time.
> I'm new to kernel device driver (linux newbie) and I'd like to control concurrent access
> to our hardware resources. (I'm working on a ppc405EP platform uniprocessor)

You might find this guide useful:

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/documents/kdoc/kernel-locking/lklockingguide.html



Jeff Angielski
The PTR Group