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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:05 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> What is the problem here - your device driver for the display can block
> tasks it doesn't want to use the display. 

Very well put again.

I bet the next example is a proglet that does: while(1); without device
interaction :-).