From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] __copy_from_user() can sleep in sscape.c
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:54:45 +0100
Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <s5hadibap3e.wl@alsa2.suse.de>
References: <200212310049.gBV0nC7n017166@twopit.underworld>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.4 - "Hosorogi")
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Return-path: <alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net>
In-Reply-To: <200212310049.gBV0nC7n017166@twopit.underworld>
Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
List-Help: <mailto:alsa-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help>
List-Post: <mailto:alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel>,
	<mailto:alsa-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel>,
	<mailto:alsa-devel-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=alsa-devel>
To: Chris Rankin <cj.rankin@ntlworld.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org

At Tue, 31 Dec 2002 00:49:12 +0000 (GMT),
Chris Rankin wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It has come to my attention that __copy_from_user() is allowed to
> sleep, which means that a driver can't be holding any spinlocks at the
> time. This is a patch for the SoundScape driver.

thanks, applied to cvs now.


ciao,

Takashi


-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.NET email is sponsored by:
SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See!
http://www.vasoftware.com