Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes

["Shem Multinymous" <multinymous@gmail.com>]

On 8/9/06, Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >If the concern is just the naming then change it to end _trylock
> >
> > We already have a thinkpad_ec_trylock() for the non-blocking
> > variant.
>
> thinkpad_ec_down_interruptible()?

Just ran out, of that sir,

If we'll need to lock away ACPI (just matter of time, my guess), we'll
stumble upon the non-interruptible down()s deep inside in the ACPI
code. So we can't guarantee and shouldn't promise it's really
interruptible.

It's not that strange that a function might fail even if it's named
"do_something()", you know. It's down() that forms an exception - it's
so simple we know it can't fail.

 Shem
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