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Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcmcia event thread. (fwd)
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:28:26 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> it looks like the loop can be simplified to
> 
> while (1) {
> 	mb();
> 	active = tq_pcmcia;
> 	if (!active)
> 		interruptible_sleep_on(&event_thread_wq);
> 	if (signal_pending(current)
> 		break;
> 	run_task_queue(&tq_pcmcia);
> }

Not if you want it to work

Alan

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