Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18 Eicon ISDN driver fix.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:50:30 +0000 (GMT)

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> The following code is calling a possibly blocking operation while
> holding a spinlock.

Definitely a bug - but can you prove dropping the lock there is safe ?
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