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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?


  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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