Re: [rtl] Is this asking for trouble or is the bug elsewhere?

[root <motyl@lodz.pdi.net>]

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Norm Dresner wrote:

> there's no static logic failure in the code.  The logic in the device
> driver is quite simple: when the appropriate read-request is received and
> the minor device number decoded (which encodes the rate), a call is made
> to sleep_on_interruptible().  That's all.  When the block is broken
> later, the code returns a 1 to signal that one byte has been transferred
> -- even though no data was really moved and that's all of the processing
> in the read-routine.

About which device driver are you talking here (RT FIFO?)? I can not
comment on wake_up_interuptible, but why don't you just use rtf_put from
RT kernel code? This should wake up the user space task blocking on read.

--
Tomek



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