From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: John Hughes <john@Calva.COM>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:11:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420131148.GY14687@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EC7200.9080308@Calva.COM>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:00:48PM +0200, John Hughes wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >John Hughes <john@Calva.COM> writes:
> >
> >>Am I being a naughty boy?
> >>
> >
> >Yes.
> >
> >
> Buggeration. What an irritating restriction.
>
> So I'll have to make a thread to do the firmware download, in which case
> I can just use request_firmware instead of request_firmware_nowait.
>
> Or can I use schedule_work?
That's what it is for yes.
-Andi
--
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 11:47 Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler? John Hughes
2009-04-20 11:59 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-20 13:00 ` John Hughes
2009-04-20 13:11 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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