Can you please use a mail client which does proper line breaks at 78 ? On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Maciej Szmigiero wrote: > You misunderstood me. No, I didnt. > By "looping in hope that somebody will finally release the chip" I > meant the only real way to handle a GPIO chip unplugging in the > current kernel. Which is way worse that preventing new requests, > then waiting for existing one to be released. And this is exactly > what my patch does. That still does not make it a good solution. > I understand that it could be simplified by removing redundant code > (as Grant Likely had suggested before), and moving it to completion > interface instead of manipulating a task structure directly, but > this doesn't mean that the whole GPIO code has to be rewritten just > to add one functionality. It's not about rewriting, it's about fixing the problem in the right way and not just hacking around it. If we see a shortcoming like this, we fix it and do not magically work around it. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
