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On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:53:11 +0100 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:17:23 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > in_atomic() is for core kernel use only. (...) > > Then why is it made available to drivers through <linux/hardirq.h>? Because we suck. > If > it's such a dangerous macro to call from drivers, it shouldn't be made > available, or at the very least there should be a big fat warning in > <linux/hardirq.h> that drivers aren't supposed to use it. This would > have avoided the 23 uses cases in drivers we have right now. True. | |||||||||
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