On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 12:39 -0700, Bill Huey wrote:
> Some of it is lack of displine with how various drivers do locking in
> that they overload the meaning of a spin_lock, etc... to also disable
> preemption and side effects with preempt_count. Making all of this
> formal
> is a good thing since it clarifies and un-ambiguates those code paths.
> It's something that should have been done in the first place
Keep in mind there are large subsystems that are already RT safe like
ALSA.
Lee
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