Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759987AbXFAXQ4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:16:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753428AbXFAXQu (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:16:50 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:36154 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753394AbXFAXQt (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 19:16:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=mej4cHM6Z04lgNK6lyYRg1qyK8H2hLtTIBXnmei/57Wb+xPF1EsWlhlQnlzWpPTZuDbtAMxfJhgueZuT8ecyl6nOjO1rdpUweDdPbZXVsD3rIpw0msdU/nBp5FZxiWuacRyp28AA99lfXo+LnIboY31TWMGSjGnNR8ukDecmca0= Message-ID: <6278d2220706011616k4c0950b0s7155f569935b6e60@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 00:16:47 +0100 From: "Daniel J Blueman" To: "Matthew Fredrickson" Subject: Re: Device Driver Etiquette Cc: "Lee Revell" , "Linux Kernel" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 969 Lines: 25 On 1 Jun, 19:40, "Lee Revell" wrote: > On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > > is it acceptable (although > > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads > > the firmware? > > I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware. Almost every > server I maintain has some vendor driver which generates a "many lost > ticks!" message on load. As long as it's only done at module load > time it should be fine. For anything ~10s or more, you'll probably also need to call the timer update function to prevent soft lockup warning being generated. > Of course the best solution is to just get the driver into mainline. > > Lee -- Daniel J Blueman - 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/