On Jan 9, 2008 2:37 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2008 2:13 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:32:48AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > On Jan 9, 2008 6:48 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:05:10PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> > > > > On Jan 8, 2008 1:20 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:13:37PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > > > > > > It's already in the driver core to the most part. It remains to
> > > > > > > be seen
> > > > > > > what is less complicated in the end: Transparent mutex-protected
> > > > > > > list
> > > > > > > accesses provided by driver core (requires the iterator), or all
> > > > > > > the
> > > > > > > necessary locking done by the drivers themselves (requires some
> > > > > > > more
> > > > > > > lock-taking but perhaps fewer lock instances overall in the
> > > > > > > drivers, and
> > > > > > > respective redefinitions and documentation of the driver core
> > > > > > > API).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I favor changing the driver core api and doing this kind of thing
> > > > > > there.
> > > > > > It keeps the drivers simpler and should hopefully make their lives
> > > > > > easier.
> > > > >
> > > > > What about this?
> > > > >
> > > > > #define class_for_each_dev(pos, head, member) \
> > > > > for (mutex_lock(&(container_of(head, struct class,
> > > > > devices))->mutex), po
> > > > > s = list_entry((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member); \
> > > > > prefetch(pos->member.next), &pos->member != (head) ? 1 :
> > > > > (mutex_unlock(&
> > > > > (container_of(head, struct class, devices))->mutex), 0); \
> > > > > pos = list_entry(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
> > > >
> > > I'm wrong, it's same as before indeed.
> > >
> > > > Eeek, just make the thing a function please, where you pass the iterator
> > > > function in, like the driver core has (driver_for_each_device)
> > >
> > > Ok, so need a new member of knode_class, I will update the patch later.
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Withdraw my post, sorry :)
> >
> > For now the mutex patch, I will only use the mutex to lock the devices list
> > and write an iterater function.
> > Most of the iterating is for finding some device in the list, so maybe need
> > a match function just like drivers do?
> >
>
> Drop one more mail address of David Brownell in cc list.
> Sorry for this, david
>
gmail web client make me crazy.
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