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On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:38:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm not so sure about this. There are deadlock potentials if the usermode > application wants to perform some function which requires keventd services > to complete - the application cannot complete because keventd is itself > waiting for the application. > > Can we think of any circumstances under which keventd _should_ > synchronously wait for the userspace app? Honestly I don't know ..Would it be reasonable for somebody to call request_module from a work function (in which case the above bug is exposed)? I agree it is not a nice thing if we block keventd waiting for the app to exit. > > btw: your patch had whitespace where the tabs should be (email client > problem), and `patch -p1' format is (much) preferred. Sorry abt that! The whitespace was because of cut-n-paste ..I have also downloaded your patch scripts and will start using that for generating patches henceforth! -- Thanks and Regards, Srivatsa Vaddagiri, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs, Bangalore, INDIA - 560017 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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