On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 03:51:51 -0400 "Brown, Len" <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> The key thing here is that our recent changes in > >> how the locks are _used_ is okay -- and I think it is. > > > >Well. We don't know that. We just know that this report of unokayness > >wasn't right. With Ingo's Linux-only patch we're in a > >position to verify > >that the locking is probably OK. > > If this were really recursive, my machine would have deadlocked > instead of booting normally like it did, no? yup. If it's SMP ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html