Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from drivers' release functions

Alan Cox
2001-12-01T09:45:42Z

> opens, we CAN announce we are closer, and nothing else will be any more
> broken than it was before we started. As I said in an earlier post (and
> I don't think anybody disagrees): this is an incremental task. Any

This is why we have a development tree. Its moving things in the right
direction which is important. I suspect many drivers will want to use
semaphores rather than atomic counts however, to ensure that an open doesn't
complete while a previous release is still shutting down hardware

Alan