Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] introduce macro spin_event_timeout()

From: Timur Tabi <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:02:27 -0500

Scott Wood wrote:

 > Or you can say that atomic context is outside the scope of this macro.

No, I don't want to say that.  We have wait_event_timeout() for larger-scale 
operations.  I'm just looking for something that can replace "while (!condition);"

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Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale