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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Gasparini
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: Mutex and Sleep

> Rajendra :- Andrea, yes I got that , but what is the purpose in having
> the might_sleep function then?

ah, i catch it. ;) 
that's a control over the buggy driver/kernel code that use mutex or other 
mechanism in wrong contexts. just this.

Rajendra :- What kind of control mechanism does it provide over the buggy
driver/kernel code ? Wrong context meaning what?

(and this post is a proof of that... :-P )

bye!
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