> I dont care if it is depreceated or not. I just want to know why it is > depreceated. it's deprecated because it can't be used without races... basically it's nearly impossible to use correctly! > Did you have a look in the kernel-2.6.18 tree how many drivers still > use interruptible_sleep_on() ? not that many that are actually used hopefully; they're ALL bugs, with maybe one or two exceptions who got lucky. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
