Re: Drivers that potentially leave state as TASK_{UN}INTERRUPTIBLE

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, George Anzinger wrote:

> Actually I was not quite correct. The call to timeout WILL return
> immediately, however, the timeout code will clean up the timer, so there
> should be no worry there. It is a bug in that the sleep does not happen
> as expected. I saw at least one place where there were comments about
> it not working.. and he did not set the state.

This was driver/sound/maestro.c btw

john

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