On Samstag 10 November 2007 00:48:52, you (Jiri Slaby) wrote: > nozomi, lock cleanup > > - semaphore is deprecated, use mutex instead > - don't return -ERESTARTSYS when signal might not be pending since it's not > permitted (unknown retval mioght reach userspace) > - don't lock interruptible in close or the card might not be stopped on last > close
Good catches. But i had to change it a bit, especially the mutex_trylock. >From mutex.c: "..it is negated to the down_trylock() return values! Be careful about this when converting semaphores to mutexes." ;-) Now it works again (doesn't deadlock my card anymore). Thanks, Frank - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/