[PATCH] kill mutex in lis

Simon Kagstrom simon.kagstrom at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 17:58:57 CEST 2008


On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:51 +0200
Holger Freyther <zecke at openmoko.org> wrote:

> I'm sitting at the airport, I have seen the latest attachment to
> #1597 and the below patch compiles and makes sense. Keep in mind that
> I'm hungry, can not think, and that no restaurant is insight until I
> land in Frankfurt...
> 
> comments welcome

I think this might disable interrupts for too long - reg_read ends up
in scheduling stuff on a workqueue and waiting for that to be run. In
computer terms it could take ages.

I have also seen the message but ignored it for now. Maybe a plain
semaphore should be OK instead?

// Simon



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