Re: [PATCH 35 of 53] ipath - some interrelated stability and cleanliness fixes

• To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: [PATCH 35 of 53] ipath - some interrelated stability and cleanliness fixes
• From: Roland Dreier <[email protected]>
• Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:53:44 -0700
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This looks like a pastiche of several patches.  Why can't it be split
up into logical pieces?

 > Call dma_free_coherent without ipath_mutex held.

Why?  Doesn't freeing work with the mutex held?

 - R.
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