Re: [PATCH 6/7] aacraid: unlock around kfree

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On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 15:39 -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> kfree has the possibility of sleeping. It is generally considered poor
> manners to hold on to a lock with the possibility of a system call
> induced sleep.

Erm, this isn't true ... we'd have no end of driver issues if kfree
could block.

James


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