Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Alan Cox
2001-05-22T15:38:04Z

> `the class of devices in question' was cryptographic devices, and possibly
> other transactional DSPs. I don't consider audio to be transactional.
> in any case, you can do transactional things with two threads, as long
> as they each have their own fd on the device. Think of the fd as your
> transaction handle.

Thats a bit pathetic. So I have to fill my app with expensive pthread locks
or hack all the drivers and totally change the multi-open sematics in the ABI

I think I'll stick to ioctl cleaned up