From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] kill sleep_on
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 23:45:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1074383111.9965.4.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040117201000.GL21151@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 20:10 +0000,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> AFAICS, _all_ uses of sleep_on() in drivers are broken in one way or another
> and BKL won't help them.
I think ext3 and nfs get away with it at the moment by using the BKL. It
does want fixing though.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-17 18:43 Manfred Spraul
2004-01-17 19:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-17 19:28 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-17 20:10 ` viro
2004-01-17 23:18 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-17 23:45 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2004-01-18 6:41 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-18 6:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-18 7:05 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-18 7:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-18 7:44 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-01-18 8:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-18 8:18 ` Manfred Spraul
2004-01-18 17:07 ` Trond Myklebust
2004-01-18 7:54 ` Trond Myklebust
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