[RFC v3] PCMCIA locking updates for 2.6.34

Dominik Brodowski linux at dominikbrodowski.net
Sun Jan 24 12:43:51 EST 2010


Hey,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:03:11PM +0900, Komuro wrote:
> The exported function should be locked like below?

No, as we're not accessing any protected memory here -- just data local to
the call chain. Now, pccard_get_first_tuple and pccard_get_tuple_data do
access protected memory, and so they are taking ops_lock (in
read_cis_cache(), actually).

Best,
	Dominik



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