From: John Hughes <john@Calva.COM>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EC7200.9080308@Calva.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ab6bpmc8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 13:01 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 [this message]
2009-04-20 13:11 ` Andi Kleen
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