On Friday 19 August 2011, Bryan Donlan wrote: > That's what mutexes are for. Note, however, that interrupt handlers > cannot use mutexes as they cannot sleep, nor can they wait for lock > holders which may themselves sleep. I agree that there is probably some other bug that needs to be fixed in the driver, but for testing it may well be worth replacing the spinlock with a mutex and the request_irq with request_threaded_irq. A threaded IRQ is slower than a normal one but does allow mutexes. Arnd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
