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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:17:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: IRQF_DISABLED problem
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>  (c) "one IRQF_DISABLED means that everything runs disabled". This is 
>      quite possibly buggy.

(Side note: I'm not claiming this (or it's mirror image (d)) is really any 
better/worse than the current behaviour from a theoretical standpoint, but 
at least the current behaviour is _tested_, which makes it better in 
practice. So if we want to change this, I think we want to change it to 
something that is _obviously_ better).

		Linus