[lkcd-devel] Re: [PATCH] Poll-based IDE driver

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

On Mer, 2003-10-08 at 13:14, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> Since my code is supposed to run when system is crashing, I would like 
> to avoid calling any function in the kernel as far as possible, since 
> the kernel and its data structures may be in a inconsistent state 
> and/or corrupted.

For x86 udelay is a tiny piece of code - you could easily inline it