imon vfd driver complexity question

[Jim Bryant]

yes, i will use mutexes in the kernel code.  what i pasted was one 
function from a userland libusb-1 test program.

the imonSendCommand(); function encapsulates the control request.

Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:17:24 Jim Bryant wrote:
>   
>> is this level of bit-fiddling acceptable in the kernel?
>>     
>
> Yes, this is Ok.
>
> One more thing: Add a mutex pointer argument to functions that can sleep.
>
> Is the code you showed doing control requests?
>
> --HPS
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>