From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
ebiederm@xmission.com, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:41:44 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190763704.2227.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F996AD.2070107@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 08:15 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> I have no problem with changing the condition check to loop but it would
> be great if someone can point me to a code where this unexpected wake up
> is used.
This is one of those areas where we're conservative. Historically there
have been random wakes, and noone is quite sure that signal code or the
freezer or whatever won't do it under some circumstances.
Thus it's always seen as better to wait on a specific condition.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-25 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 7:26 [PATCHSET 2/4] sysfs: allow suicide Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 7:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload() Tejun Heo
2007-09-24 22:00 ` Jonathan Corbet
2007-09-24 23:18 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-24 23:42 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-25 1:40 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 2:12 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-25 2:39 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 3:21 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-25 3:36 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 4:38 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-25 8:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-09-25 8:25 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 8:36 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 8:50 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-25 14:05 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 14:24 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-25 14:30 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 15:09 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-25 23:15 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 23:41 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-09-26 1:42 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-26 14:39 ` Alan Stern
2007-09-20 7:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] sysfs: make the sysfs_addrm_cxt->removed list FIFO Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 7:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] sysfs: make suicidal nodes just do it directly Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 9:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-09-20 9:43 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-28 13:54 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-09-28 14:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-09-20 7:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] sysfs: care-free suicide for sysfs files Tejun Heo
2007-09-25 22:02 ` [PATCHSET 2/4] sysfs: allow suicide Greg KH
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