On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:59:06 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
quoted text
> > mdelay(10) replaced by msleep(10) to give up the CPU, it's just
> > waiting for an interrupt, so timing isn't critical.
> 
> It is too critical for a reschedule to occur.
> 
> NAK this one.

There are already some msleep() in probe_irq_on() which is called just
before here.  And this part is not protected by any spinlock or
preempt_disable.

So, if rescheduling was dangerous here, we already have potential
problems, no?

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Atsushi Nemoto
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