Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:46:06 +1000 |
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> Actually I'm not convinced with this explanation. It seems to me that > since there are such serious locking problems (especially with rntl), > there could be once more considered a private workqueue. You've > written earlier about being a lonely user of this code. But, since > Benjamin offered his help with changing to mutexes, which looks like > very reasonable idea to me (probably I miss most of the points...), > maybe it's very good opportunity to both: make this code better and > double the user base! I'm interested in looking for such solution > if Benjamin thinks there could be too few problems for him... So, > let somebody tell us what could be wrong with this idea?
My main problem is time :-) But I need to do the change to mutex if I am to use phylib for emac. I can't tell when I'll have time to do it tho.
Ben.
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