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fix race and remove BKL from wdt977
Description:
We've seen this in several other drivers, most recently the indydog one. If two simultaneous opens occur, they race, they device gets opened twice. Using atomic bitops fixes this. The BKL is not needed.
Developer:
Dave Hansen
Status:
Submitted to project
Release
Notes
Date
Files
2.5.8-pre1
Release Notes
2002-04-05
File Notes
wdt977-bkl_remove-2.5.8-pre1.patch.gz