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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fixes gemmi_idle in file idle.c
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Thanks for the good feedback on kernel development , I will delete this file
in order to clean up race conditions caused by it.
Cheers Nick

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:52:40PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote:
>> disables the IRQ line in gemmi_idle before calling cpu_do_idle.
>> In addition, according to the Fixme message in this file fixes
>> races that may occur due to not disabling the IRQ before calling
>> cpu_do_idle.
>
> 1) the idle method is called with interrupts already disabled.
> 2) I wonder if you read the comment above the comment you removed, and
> if so, why it wasn't removed.
> 3) can you indicate how the hardware problem has been fixed, or give some
> justification why this change should be accepted.
>
> --
> FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line: now at 9.7Mbps down 460kbps up... slowly
> improving, and getting towards what was expected from it.


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