I haven't seen any patches for ages to nvram, so I presume nobody.
> What I really want to know is: should I bother making nvram_open_cnt SMP
> safe, or should it just go away all together. I vote for the latter
> option, unless something depends on this behavior (in which case, other
> fixes are needed, because it is broken :).
Once you figure out what the best behavior is (which I'm not sure of,
myself), I would suggest using a semaphore in the open and release
methods.
Jeff
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