Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261857AbVBZISo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:18:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261850AbVBZISo (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:18:44 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:56221 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261860AbVBZISD (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:18:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 00:14:28 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Payasam Manohar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: calling call_usermodehelper from interrupt context Message-Id: <20050226001428.7515d17b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 482 Lines: 12 Payasam Manohar wrote: > > Is it possible to call call_usermodehelper from interrupt context. No. You'll need to run schedule_work() and then run call_usermodehelper() from within the work function. - 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/