Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161024AbWARV5d (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:57:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161025AbWARV5c (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:57:32 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:44721 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161024AbWARV5b (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:57:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:57:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Benjamin LaHaise cc: Andrew Morton , Chandra Seetharaman , Keith Owens , Kernel development list Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] Notifier chain update In-Reply-To: <20060118214204.GG16285@kvack.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 569 Lines: 16 On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > A notifier callee should not be sleeping, if anything it should be putting > its work onto a workqueue and completing it when it gets scheduled if it > has to do something that blocks. Sez who? If it's not documented in the kernel source, I don't believe it. Alan Stern - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/