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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:17:22 +1000
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On Tuesday 27 May 2008 03:29:14 Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Mutexes are not allowed in interrupt context, not even mutex_trylock.

As an aside, does anyone know why?  I know the documentation says so, but it 
wasn't immediately obvious to me.  I asked before to no response...

Thanks,
Rusty.