From: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@pol.net,
ajoshi@shell.unixbox.com, pfaffben@debian.org,
VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Video: fb, add true ref_count atomicity
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:04:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CBAC8A.3050806@directfb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <135662331710109923@wsc.cz>
Jiri Slaby wrote:
> video/fb, add true ref_count atomicity
>
> Some of fb drivers uses atomic_t in bad manner, since there are still some
> race-prone gaps. Use mutexes to protect open/close code sections with
> ref_count testing and finally use simple uint.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>
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Best regards,
Denis Oliver Kropp
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-08 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 1:00 [PATCH 1/2] Video: fb, add true ref_count atomicity Jiri Slaby
2007-02-08 1:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] Video: fb, kzalloc changes Jiri Slaby
2007-02-08 23:04 ` Denis Oliver Kropp [this message]
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