| Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2014 11:19:32 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/12] misc: vexpress-syscfg: Add udelay-based delay |
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:10:25PM +0000, Pawel Moll wrote: > It is normally preferable to yield the task > waiting for syscfg operations (that can take > up to dozens of milliseconds), but when the > system is shutting down it may not be possible.
Really? What happens at shutdown that prevents things from being scheduled? Why would you want to busy-loop instead at this point in time?
thanks,
greg k-h
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