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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_hdlc fix read and write locking
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:18:35 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC6104B.7040204@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010252231.06794.arnd@arndb.de>

On 10/25/2010 3:31 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Would it be possible to express the same using
> wait_event_interruptible()?

Yes if I embed an assignment in the event expression:

rc = wait_event_interruptible(&wait, (buf = get_buf()));
if (!rc)
	process_buf(buf);

Is that considered acceptable?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-25 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-25 18:22 [PATCH] n_hdlc fix read and write locking Paul Fulghum
2010-10-25 20:05 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-25 20:29   ` Paul Fulghum
2010-10-25 21:19   ` Paul Fulghum
2010-10-25 20:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-25 23:18   ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2010-10-26 10:40     ` Arnd Bergmann

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