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Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 09:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> In testing, I came up against the "spin_unlock() causes schedule()
> inside interrupt" problem.

It shouldn't cause a schedule, it should cause a big warning (with 
complete trace) to be printed out. Or did you mean something else?

Maybe the warning should be changed to

	Warning, kernel is mixing metaphors. "It's not rocket surgery".

to make it clear why it's a bad idea.

		Linus

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