Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261850AbVBZI0m (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:26:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261860AbVBZI0m (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:26:42 -0500 Received: from lantana.tenet.res.in ([202.144.28.166]:4797 "EHLO lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261850AbVBZI0k (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Feb 2005 03:26:40 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 13:56:29 +0530 (IST) From: Payasam Manohar To: Andrew Morton cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: calling call_usermodehelper from interrupt context In-Reply-To: <20050226001428.7515d17b.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20050226001428.7515d17b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Mail-scanner Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: pmanohar@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 856 Lines: 29 hai Mr.Andrew, Thanks for ur help. If u find some more info regarding this please send me. I want to call user program (let it be hello world program ) from keyboard driver, >You'll need to run schedule_work() and then run call_usermodehelper() Is it the right way to do it. Thanks&Regards, P.Manohar, Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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/