linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIU

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Message-ID: <48037C55.7060105@freescale.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:46:29 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, York Sun <yorksun@...escale.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Driver for Freescale 8610 and 5121 DIU

Jiri Slaby wrote:

> Mainly because you can sleep inside locked mutex and because spinlock shouldn't
> be used for too many lines of code (busy waiting etc.). I think ldd3 will be
> more descriptive than me here :).

Ok, I'll look into it.

Andrew, do you want us to respin the patch, or would you be willing to let us
make the change in a follow-up patch?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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