In article <001801c0af8e$bda30c10$5517fea9@local>,
Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Unortunately schedule() with disabled interrupts is a feature, it's
>needed for the old (deprecated and waiting for termination in 2.5)
>sleep_on() functions.
Yes. But that should only cover "sleep_on()" and it's interruptible
cousing "sleep_on_interruptible()". No other blocking call should have
interrupts disabled, I would hope.
The special-case is a fairly specific "some old-style drivers avoid race
conditions by having interrupts disabled over explicit conditional
sleeps", not a generic "you may have interrupts disabled before
blocking".
Linus
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