Re: your mail

Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-19T14:10:26Z

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Joilnen Leite wrote:

> excuse me friends shcedule_timeout(1) is not a problem
> for spin_lock_irqsave ?
>
> drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c:897
>
> spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
> while (HWGROUP(drive)->handler) {
> HWGROUP(drive)->handler = NULL;
> schedule_timeout(1);
> }
>
> pub 1024D/5139533E Joilnen Batista Leite
> F565 BD0B 1A39 390D 827E 03E5 0CD4 0F20 5139 533E

What kernel version? It is very bad. You can't sleep with
a spin-lock being held!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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