Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:56:35 +0300 | From | Muli Ben-Yehuda <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/12] hdaps: Correct readout and remove nonsensical attributes |
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:02:39PM +0300, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> If we'll need to lock away ACPI (just matter of time, my guess), we'll > stumble upon the non-interruptible down()s deep inside in the ACPI > code. So we can't guarantee and shouldn't promise it's really > interruptible.
Ok, I concede :-)
> It's not that strange that a function might fail even if it's named > "do_something()", you know. It's down() that forms an exception - it's > so simple we know it can't fail.
From a maintainer point of view, anything that is non-idiomatic is a pain. Since there is no idiomatic way to express what you want, you get to choose the idiom.
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