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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:27:07 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@...il.com> 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 Dhananjay Phadke wrote: > 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. This implies that you have -add- code to check for and handle signals at each delay point. Don't bother. Too much code bloat for negligable gain. It is better just to remove the _interruptible, for many reasons. 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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