Re: TODO: drivers/pcmcia/ds.c: ds_read & ds_write. SMP locks are missing fix

2000-10-12 Thread Jan-Simon Pendry
holding a spin lock across a (potential) sleep is a bug - it can lead to deadlock. jan-simon. Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:38:11AM -0400, Yong Chi wrote: > > Hopefully this will do for SMP locks. =) > > Holding a spinlock for this long (especially when you might sleep

Re: TODO: drivers/pcmcia/ds.c: ds_read ds_write. SMP locks are missing fix

2000-10-12 Thread Jan-Simon Pendry
holding a spin lock across a (potential) sleep is a bug - it can lead to deadlock. jan-simon. Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 11:38:11AM -0400, Yong Chi wrote: Hopefully this will do for SMP locks. =) Holding a spinlock for this long (especially when you might sleep there