Lets just say that this is good fault tolorance. What ever can go wrong will, all drivers are faulty. This sounds like a good idea and should be implemented for ordinary use or something like it.
Unless you thing we should KP on a lock being held for more then a given time(30 seconds)?
As a side note - when debugging a driver (eg singlestepping in gdb), I regularly hold the lock for longer than that.
Also, when the VT is switched away from the X server, I believe that the hardware lock remains grabbed - for minutes or hours at a time.
Keith
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