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Subject: Re: [9fans] page fault with lock held
From: Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:37:51 -0400
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>> no, you should not be holding a spinlock when trying that.
>> why is your driver trying to copy directly to user space,
>> isn't it a subdevice of devsd? (i'm not saying that's the way
>> to do it, just curious).
> 
> i'll say that's probably the way to do it.
> 
> russ

Why?

 Brantley