Re: [PATCH][RFC] use completions instead of sleep_on for rpciod

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:44:05 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> The rpciod shutdown code gives ugly sleep_on without BKL warnings in
> -mm.  And it looks indeed somewhat racy.
> 
> The easy fix would be to simply use a completion as in the patch below,
> but that removes all the signal fuzzing semantics the current code has.
> I don't really understand why we want to cancel the operation by
> signals, but I think it'd be better to leave that to people familar with
> the code anyway..

I think your patch is fine, and there are no signal issues (such code looks
merely to be some abberation rather than anything else).

So I've added it to my tree.