On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> they can't arrive at the second test simultaneously cause cdev_lock
> is used for synchronization.
>
> yes, they would set it to the same value, but two calls to
> list_add(&inode->i_devices, &p->list) would result in
> inode->i_devices being added twice to p->list.
other than that issue, matthew, did the rest of my post look
reasonably accurate in terms of how inode->i_cdev came to be set?
rday
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