On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Attached is a file showing about 485 usages of 'sleep_on' in the
> kernel drivers. If this usage is, as you say, buggy then will you
> please inform us unwashed hordes what we should use to replace these?
Anything you like -- as long as it doesn't have gaping races which are
obvious to anyone with half a clue who actually _thinks_ about the code
rather than assuming that _driver_ authors all got it right :)
We _really_ need to kill sleep_on() in 2.5.
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