netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ne.c msleep not mdelay

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Date:	Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:47 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	david@...es.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	p_gortmaker@...oo.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ne.c msleep not mdelay

> There are already some msleep() in probe_irq_on() which is called just
> before here.  And this part is not protected by any spinlock or
> preempt_disable.
> 
> So, if rescheduling was dangerous here, we already have potential
> problems, no?

Yes we do but I didn't manage to stop the other mistakes getting in when
they did. If you take a schedule you get results back from the probe_irq
that tend to suck in other random ISA device events (ISA being edge
triggered nobody was ever careful about spurious irq)
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