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

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Message-Id: <20080901.023026.55145642.anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2008 02:30:26 +0900 (JST)
From:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
To:	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
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

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:44:47 +0100, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > 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)

OK, I see your point.  Thanks.

---
Atsushi Nemoto
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