Re: [PATCH] ALSA: use __devexit_p

[Jeff Garzik]

This reminds me...

Someone needs to go through ALSA and audit all delays executed via 
$FOO_interruptible().

Several delays within ALSA wait for hardware conditions, and do not 
check for signals pending, which means that the wait-for-condition loop 
becomes a busy loop:

	while (1) {
		foo = read_hardware()
		if (foo & interesting_bits)
			break;
		schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
	}

The proper fix is (a) remove "_interruptible" [recommended] or (b) check 
for signals.

grep'ing for "_interruptible" quickly finds several such ALSA bugs.

	Jeff


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