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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial 8250: move push calls out of lock
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:09:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4631F603.40901@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46311E48.4070106@acm.org>

Corey Minyard wrote:
> Russell King wrote:    
>>
>> Use of an uninitialised variable.  The reason we use check_modem_status
>> to return the current status here is because reading the MSR _clears_
>> interrupts.  So, repeatedly calling get_mctrl via an ioctl is a great
>> way to introduce a hardware race condition if you just read the MSR and
>> never act on it.
>>   
> "status" is used as a return variable; it is set by the call.  I modified
> check_modem_status() to return if it detected a change and set the
> status if it was passed in.
Ok, I see what I missed.  Never mind.

-corey


      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-26 20:51 [PATCH] serial 8250: move push calls out of lock Corey Minyard
2007-04-26 20:58 ` Russell King
2007-04-26 21:48   ` Corey Minyard
2007-04-27 13:09     ` Corey Minyard [this message]

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