From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:22:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:22:37 -0400 Received: from 205-158-62-105.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.105]:14213 "HELO ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:22:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20020821142544.29460.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "sanket rathi" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 22:25:44 +0800 Subject: Interrupt Handler X-Originating-Ip: 202.54.40.40 X-Originating-Server: ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am writing a device driver for a pci card i know that whenever u r writing a interrupt handler there are some restrictions. like u cannot acquire a lock, u can't sleep but i want to know, is there some restriction like i can't use buffers which i have allocated through vmalloc. actually i allocated some structure through vmalloc in init_module() and referencing them in interrupt handler will that create some problem. Thanks in advance ----Sanket ------------- -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze