Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update

From: Alan Stern
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 16:56:03 EST


On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it should be putting
> its work onto a workqueue and completing it when it gets scheduled if it
> has to do something that blocks.

Sez who? If it's not documented in the kernel source, I don't believe
it.

Alan Stern

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