Re: [PATCH] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

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On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:43:59 +0200
Michael Buesch <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Sure, but why is the locking interruptible rather than plain old
> > mutex_lock()?
> 
> Hm, well. We hold this mutex for several seconds, as writing takes
> this long. So I simply thought it was worth allowing the waiter
> to interrupt here. If you say that's not an issue, I'll be happy
> to use mutex_lock() and reduce code complexity in this area.

So..  is that what the _interruptible() is for?  To allow an impatient user to ^c
a read?

If so, that sounds reasonable.  It's worth a comment explaining these decisions
to future readers, because it is hard to work out this sort of thinking just
from the bare C code.
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