Re: [PATCH] qla2xxx: firmware semaphore to mutex

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* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:21:58PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Don't you need to return the -EINTR so the caller knows the nature of
> > the failure? You might also need to re-factor the caller of this
> > function so it properly reports the failure to userspace .. In this case
> > your just returning NULL .. 
> 
> The signal is _fatal_.  Userspace doesn't get to check the return 
> value. It's dead.

i agree with your change, nevertheless Daniel is right in that the 
change should be in a separate patch. "sem2mutex" patches are supposed 
to be NOP-ish patches, with nothing else mixed in.

	Ingo
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