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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block_all_signals() usage in DRM
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 19:15:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55635896.1040600@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150525165032.GB32370@redhat.com>

Am 25.05.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Oleg Nesterov:
> AAAAOn 05/25, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>
>> Is this functionality still in use/needed?
> 
> All I can say it doesn't work.
> 
>> Otherwise we could get rid of block_all_signals() and unpuzzle the signaling
>> code a bit. :-)
> 
> Yes. I do not even remember when I reported this the first time. Perhaps
> more than 10 years ago.
> 
> See the last attempt in 2011: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/12/263
> I copied this email below.

Thank you Oleg, this makes sense.
I was actually wondering WTF this function is good for.

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-25 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-25 14:59 block_all_signals() usage in DRM Richard Weinberger
2015-05-25 16:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-05-25 17:15   ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2015-05-25 21:36   ` Dave Airlie
2015-05-25 21:36     ` Dave Airlie
2015-05-25 21:31 ` Dave Airlie
2015-05-25 21:31   ` Dave Airlie

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