Jiri Slaby wrote:

> Mainly because you can sleep inside locked mutex and because spinlock 
> shouldn't
> be used for too many lines of code (busy waiting etc.). I think ldd3 will be
> more descriptive than me here :).

Ok, I'll look into it.

Andrew, do you want us to respin the patch, or would you be willing to let us
make the change in a follow-up patch?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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