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Re: How do I make a kernel module "sleep" without affecting other kernel modules?

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:14 +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
> I wonder if it's bad practice to set current->state directly instead
> of using a function like set_current_state (like the way msleep does
> in the current kernel source) ?

yes it is; you miss the "wmb()" that way which is a bug (altough
basically harmless for x86; less so for other processors).
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