Re: [PATCH 1/5] HDQ Driver for OMAP2430/3430

[Andrew Morton]

> On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:42:49 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:50:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I think it's reasonable to permit the driver's operations to be interrupted
> > in this manner.  It's done in quite a few other places.  But the problem is
> > actually *testing* it.
> 
> Why not just skipping the waiting and returning error pretending user
> really sent a signal?

Better than nothing, but because signal_pending() isn't actually true,
upper layers wil behave differently.

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