Alan, I looked at your code in kernel/resource.c and I agree the while is not needed. I guess every time it comes back from "schedule" your code loops back to reserve the region. I will test the code without the while and make the needed change. Regards Nat On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:41 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> + while (!request_muxed_region(REG, 2, NAME)) >> + continue; >> + > > This shouldn't need the loop ? - is it only working with the loop > present ? > > > Otherwise this looks good - I'd just like to understand if the loop was > needed (indicating a bug has crept into the muxed alloc code somewhere > perhaps) or not > > Alan > -- Regards Nat Gurumoorthy AB6SJ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-watchdog" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html