On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Milton Krutt <milton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. > It is known that no semaphore synchronization should be > used inside an interrupt handler. > > Anyway, I am looking at a freeBSD device driver (written by > a profesionist) and there are semaphores inside an interrupt > handler's subroutine. > > Since I should port to linux that driver, I ask you how can I > reach such synchronization under linux; I tried to use semaphores > inside my handler but I got complains, and I don't want to break > the law, so no semaphores for me. Perhaps spinlocks could be the solution :). 2.6.10 please no - :), Linux kernel is now at 4.0. Daniel. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
