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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.5 1/2] lib: allow idr to be used in irq context
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:15:40 -0500
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On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 17:33 -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> No preallocation is done from IRQ context.  Do not spread FUD.
> It seems to me that you're unaware how IDR works and unaware how
> the driver works.

Argumentum ad Hominem now ... we'll get them all eventually.

Since you won't post the usage code, just answer this: how does what
you're doing with idr differ from its originally designed consumer: the
posix timers which also do the idr_remove() in IRQ context?

To me it seems your argument applies to this case as well, but you
didn't quote it when asked for an example, so I assume there's some
difference that I don't understand.

James