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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:46:06 +1000 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>, Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes > Actually I'm not convinced with this explanation. It seems to me that > since there are such serious locking problems (especially with rntl), > there could be once more considered a private workqueue. You've > written earlier about being a lonely user of this code. But, since > Benjamin offered his help with changing to mutexes, which looks like > very reasonable idea to me (probably I miss most of the points...), > maybe it's very good opportunity to both: make this code better and > double the user base! I'm interested in looking for such solution > if Benjamin thinks there could be too few problems for him... So, > let somebody tell us what could be wrong with this idea? My main problem is time :-) But I need to do the change to mutex if I am to use phylib for emac. I can't tell when I'll have time to do it tho. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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