Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271235AbTHCStq (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:49:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271239AbTHCSsb (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:48:31 -0400 Received: from oasis.frogfoot.net ([168.210.54.51]:13730 "HELO oasis.frogfoot.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S271308AbTHCShn (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:37:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 20:37:07 +0200 From: Abraham van der Merwe To: Linux Kernel Discussions Subject: sleeping in dev->tx_timeout? Message-ID: <20030803183707.GA13728@oasis.frogfoot.net> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Discussions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: Frogfoot Networks CC X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux oasis 2.4.21 (i686) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://oasis.frogfoot.net/keys/ X-Uptime: 20:34:45 up 28 days, 20:41, 8 users, load average: 0.07, 0.07, 0.00 X-Edited-With-Muttmode: muttmail.sl - 2001-09-27 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 795 Lines: 26 Hi! Is it safe to sleep in tx_timeout (in the networking code), i.e. to call schedule_timeout and friends from that routine? -- Regards Abraham : How would you disambiguate these situations? By shooting the person who did the latter. -- Larry Wall in <199710290235.SAA02444@wall.org> ___________________________________________________ Abraham vd Merwe - Frogfoot Networks CC 9 Kinnaird Court, 33 Main Street, Newlands, 7700 Phone: +27 21 686 1665 Cell: +27 82 565 4451 Http: http://www.frogfoot.net/ Email: abz@frogfoot.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/