Hi Robert,
El Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:28:23AM -0400 Robert P. J. Day ha dit:
> 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?
i come to the same conclusion, though i'm probably not the best
reference as i'm still relativly new to the internals of the kernel.
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