[PATCH] Video: fb, add true ref_count atomicity
authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:55:11 +0000 (00:55 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:42 +0000 (09:48 -0800)
Some of fb drivers uses atomic_t in bad manner, since there are still some
race-prone gaps.  Use mutexes to protect open/close code sections with
ref_count testing and finally use simple uint.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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