Re: use of preempt_count instead of in_atomic() at leds-gpio.c

[Alan Stern]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, David Brownell wrote:

> I _almost_ hate bringing this lovely flamage back onto $SUBJECT ... but
> what's the resolution for the leds-gpio.c issue?  I've not seen a merge
> notice for the patch I submitted a week ago now:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120597839009399&w=2
> 
> Just a "leaning..." comment:
> 
> 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120606104619198&w=2
> 
> Seems to me that by now there ought to be resolution on at least
> one of the issues brought up on this thread.  :)

Is it reasonable to have two version of that subroutine: one meant to 
be called in a sleepable context and the other to be called when 
sleeping isn't allowed?

Alan Stern

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