Re: down_trylock doesn't preserve irqstate

From: almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch
Date: Sat Feb 26 2000 - 17:09:30 EST


David S. Miller wrote:
> A few months ago we went scattering around fixing up places
> which assumed IRQ state was preserved across sleep points,

Hmm, so sleep_on() no longer preserves cli/sti ? I knew sleep_on() was
deprecated, but not that it was broken ... (the ATM code still has quite
a few of them)

- Werner

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