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Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 07:19:13 +0530 From: "Dhananjay Phadke" <dhananjay.phadke@...il.com> To: "Jeff Garzik" <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: "Michael Buesch" <mb@...sch.de>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, rob@...xen.com, "Milan Bag" <mbag@...xen.com>, "Wen Xiong" <wenxiong@...ibm.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] NetXen: Graceful teardown of interface and hardware upon module unload This stage is safe to bail out on signal. It's initializing about a hundred registers and trying to guaranty by retrying, so can get stretched too much on faulty h/w. -Dhananjay On 7/1/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote: > While strictly this is true, I strongly urge the use of > non-interruptible sleeps when used in hardware-related delays. Very > rarely does one really want to care about signals for such cases. > > Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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