netdev - Re: use of preempt_count instead of in

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Message-ID: <20080321123708.GE5586@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:37:08 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	video4linux-list@...hat.com, lm-sensors@...sensors.org
Subject: Re: use of preempt_count instead of in_atomic() at leds-gpio.c

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Stefan Richter wrote:
> and eth1394 to deal with temporary lack of of tlabels.  Alas I just  
> recently received a report that eth1394's workaround is unsuccessful on  
> non-preemptible uniprocessor kernels.  I suspect the same issue exists  

Which, I think, is exactly the config where in_atomic() can't be used to
mean "in_scheduleable_context()" ?

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh
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