On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, David S. Miller wrote:
>You should not acquire a semaphore with interrupts disabled.
>
>And if the semaphore sleeps, you'll end up with IRQs enabled when it
>wakes up.
The only point of the trylock is that it doesn't sleep and that it can be
used within irq handlers and so on...
Andrea
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