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Driver porting: sleeping and waking up

Driver porting: sleeping and waking up

Posted Mar 6, 2003 10:40 UTC (Thu) by driddoch (guest, #9975)
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And just to illustrate how error prone the manual sleep interface is, the example has a bug: You must remove yourself from the wait queue before you return -ERESTARTSYS.

No doubt this was deliberate ;-)


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Driver porting: sleeping and waking up

Posted Mar 6, 2003 13:43 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Of course it was deliberate. I decided that maybe it was too subtle a way of making my point, though, so I fixed it...:)

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