From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/4] netxen: implement generic pcie semaphore functions Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090826.153747.266210126.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1251177808-16450-1-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> <1251177808-16450-2-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: dhananjay@netxen.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:51667 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751626AbZHZWhd (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:37:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1251177808-16450-2-git-send-email-dhananjay@netxen.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Dhananjay Phadke Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:23:26 -0700 > Implement common function for locking/unlocking 8 hardware > semaphores used for serializing access to shared resouces > on a NIC board by different PCI functions. > > As by definition, callers of these semaphore API can be > put to sleep till the semaphore is locked. > > Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke Applied.