From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Weinberger Subject: Re: block_all_signals() usage in DRM Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 19:15:02 +0200 Message-ID: <55635896.1040600@nod.at> References: <556338DA.6000404@nod.at> <20150525165032.GB32370@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150525165032.GB32370@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org 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