Re: [PATCH] epoll bits 0.34

[Davide Libenzi]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Which file descriptors are pollable with eventpoll? For example rtc_poll
> does
>
>     spin_lock_irq();
>     do_work();
>     spin_unlock_irq();
>
> I'm sure that there are other drivers that are be affected, I haven't
> checked networking.
>
> And is that really needed? Could you do the real work in the poll
> callback instead of locking around the f_op call?

I'll take care of it, thx for your precious input.

- Davide