Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 22:09:26 EST


On Tuesday 27 May 2008 03:29:14 Michal Schmidt wrote:
> Mutexes are not allowed in interrupt context, not even mutex_trylock.

As an aside, does anyone know why? I know the documentation says so, but it
wasn't immediately obvious to me. I asked before to no response...

Thanks,
Rusty.
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