Re: [patch 06/18] net/cosa: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep

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Re: [patch 06/18] net/cosa: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_int

To:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	Re: [patch 06/18] net/cosa: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
From:	Jan Kasprzak <kas@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:23:14 +0100
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
: why add all the memory barriers and such associated with 
: set_current_state() ?
: 
        This is not time-critical - COSA is an ISA-only device,
and the driver is not tested on SMP (I have tried to make it SMP-aware,
but at the time I had no SMP machine with ISA slot).

-Yenya

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