On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 14:39, David S. Miller wrote:
> I hadn't considered this, good idea. I'm trying this out right now.
I hope it works. I have a sinking feeling we call it some places that
may have interrupts disabled...
> Someone should backport the might_sleep() stuff to 2.4.x, it's very
> useful.
Would be nice, but for the maximum effect we need kernel preemption
(which keeps track of atomicity via preempt_count). I doubt we want to
go there for 2.4.
Robert Love
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