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SubjectRe: [PATCH] spi: Fix hung task timeout when initialization fails
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:53:58AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:

> Thanks for your comments. This fix does not avoid the task being
> killed (which is not an error). What it does is that IF the task is
> killed or we are out of memory we will exit with all the resources
> properly released and no locks helds, giving the user a chance to
> reload/rebind the module instead of getting and unstable system that
> cannot even reboot without a powercycle.

How does it ensure that? What's to stop the task being killed after we
check to see if the task was killed.
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