RE: [PATCH 8/8] staging: tidspbridge - make sync_wait_on_event interruptible

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felipe Contreras [mailto:felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 7:59 PM
> To: Guzman Lugo, Fernando
> Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxx; felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx; 
> Hiroshi.DOYU@xxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx; linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
> linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] staging: tidspbridge - make 
> sync_wait_on_event interruptible
> 
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Fernando Guzman Lugo 
> <x0095840@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > So that avoid non-killable process.
> 
> It would be useful to interrupt these tasks from user-space. 
> A separate ioctl to do that would be needed.

I don't see use case where that could be needed. It is only
To avoid a nonkillable task in the case the user pass an infinite
Timeout.

If you have some test case where that ioctl would be needed
Please share it in order to find the best solution.

Regards,
Fernando.

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