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Re: interruptible_sleep_on() vs wait_event_interruptible()


> I dont care if it is depreceated or not. I just want to know why it is 
> depreceated.

it's deprecated because it can't be used without races... basically it's
nearly impossible to use correctly!

> Did you have a look in the kernel-2.6.18 tree how many drivers still 
> use interruptible_sleep_on() ?

not that many that are actually used hopefully; they're ALL bugs, with
maybe one or two exceptions who got lucky.

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