Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:49519 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752864AbYE0CIk (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2008 22:08:40 -0400 From: Rusty Russell To: Michal Schmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: wireless: airo semaphore to mutex Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:17:22 +1000 Cc: Daniel Walker , linville@tuxdriver.com, matthew@wil.cx, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org References: <20080522232103.120033152@mvista.com> <20080526192914.31045d09@brian.englab.brq.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20080526192914.31045d09@brian.englab.brq.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200805271117.23051.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (sfid-20080527_040925_529167_B2594A31) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 03:29:14 Michal Schmidt wrote: > Mutexes are not allowed in interrupt context, not even mutex_trylock. As an aside, does anyone know why? I know the documentation says so, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me. I asked before to no response... Thanks, Rusty.