--- Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > 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.
>
When debug is set we can turn these featurs off.
> 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.
>
This is a multi-user OS bug. I'l not even pretend it's a feature that we
should keep.
> Keith
>
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