From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug and interrupt context
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:18:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AAC3FFA.1C3DDC0E@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010312014811.B472@storm.local>
Andreas Bombe wrote:
>
> I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to
> design than implementation, so I'll ask:
>
> Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_driver have to be able to
> work in interrupt context? (i.e. GFP_ATOMIC and stuff)
No, no interrupt context to worry about. It would really suck if you
couldn't sleep in pci_driver::probe :)
For CardBus, it calls schedule_task ..
--
Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of
Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns
MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-12 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-12 0:48 hotplug and interrupt context Andreas Bombe
2001-03-12 3:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-03-13 1:43 ` Andreas Bombe
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