On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:38:20AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > You have to do _something_, because a user task could be about to read the
> > configuration space at the exact moment you want to start the BIST. That
> > means ipr would have to wait until the user access is finished, which
> > means it has to be prepared to sleep one way or another.
>
> Actually, it only has to spin until the user has finished accessing
> config space. See the patch I just posted.
I stand corrected.
Don't you want the user process to wait in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE? It would
require only a very simple change.
Alan Stern
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