On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Which file descriptors are pollable with eventpoll? For example rtc_poll
> does
>
> spin_lock_irq();
> do_work();
> spin_unlock_irq();
>
> I'm sure that there are other drivers that are be affected, I haven't
> checked networking.
>
> And is that really needed? Could you do the real work in the poll
> callback instead of locking around the f_op call?
I'll take care of it, thx for your precious input.
- Davide
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