On 7/17/07, Rajendra Stalekar <rajendra.stalekar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrea Gasparini Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:59 PM To: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Mutex and Sleep > Rajendra :- Andrea, yes I got that , but what is the purpose in having > the might_sleep function then? ah, i catch it. ;) that's a control over the buggy driver/kernel code that use mutex or other mechanism in wrong contexts. just this. Rajendra :- What kind of control mechanism does it provide over the buggy driver/kernel code ? Wrong context meaning what?
You are not supposed to sleep in interrupt context.Thats most probably a BUG. So sleeping in interrupt context is wrong.
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