RE: [ACPI] down_timeout

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2003-10-03 at 21:29, Moore, Robert wrote:
> I would say that the whole thing is wrong -- the kernel should provide a
> semaphore wait function that includes a timeout parameter.

Thats probably the right thing to fix. A timeout aware version of down()
doesnt actually look too hard.

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