From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module.
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:25:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030103072532.GA11023@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301031722.03325.bhards@bigpond.net.au>
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:21:57PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:08, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > + * Must be called from process context. Returns a negative error code
> > + * if program was not execed successfully, or (exitcode << 8 + signal)
> > + * of the application (0 if wait is not set).
> Any chance that you can remove this (existing) restriction. It'd be good to be
> able to use this in some networking code (eg netif_carrier_[off|on]() ), but
> that might be in interrupt context.
The link up/down notifications added in recent 2.5.x should eliminate a
need to fiddle while in interrupt context...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-03 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 9:36 [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module Rusty Russell
2003-01-02 17:14 ` Marcel Holtmann
2003-01-02 19:08 ` Thomas Sailer
2003-01-03 5:08 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-03 6:21 ` Brad Hards
2003-01-03 7:25 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-03 7:36 ` Andrew Morton
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