On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:04:11AM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... > It looks like you're talking about the right thing > and I'm a fool again! Now I try to find why I even > had to pay for this. I read again and again adequate > chapters from R. Love and C. Benvenuti's books, see > a lot about kernel preemption in 2.6, but can't see > anything about preemption disabled in ioctls - maybe > I'm blind or they are badly translated. Now I look > into "Linux Device Drivers", see ch. 6 about ioctls, > blocking I/O and RCU, but nothing about preemption > disabled again. Maybe this is omited because it's > obvious to people who started hacking with earlier > kernels?
... or maybe it's even more complicated... For the time being, I revoke my critique of these books. Jarek P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
