Simon Arlott napsal(a):
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> On 22/05/07 21:06, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> would the following resolve the problem?
>>
>> if(mutex_lock_interruptible(&info->write_mtx))         return
>> -ERESTARTSYS
>>
>> thanks for your comments
>>
> 
> No. At least one user of tty_operations/tty_driver's write function
> doesn't check the return value so it would never be retried, mutex_lock
> should be used instead.

Who? There are some drivers that returns ERESTARTSYS from write function.

regards,
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