Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762176AbXFBXWs (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:22:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762266AbXFBXWl (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:22:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:40031 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761892AbXFBXWl (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Jun 2007 19:22:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Device Driver Etiquette From: Arjan van de Ven To: Matthew Fredrickson Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:22:00 -0700 Message-Id: <1180826520.2815.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1149 Lines: 26 On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 12:47 -0500, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > My question is this: is there a way to either work around the problem I > am seeing with the stack without recompiling the kernel with 8K stack > size or without disabling irqs for such a long period of time (which I > think is not a nice thing to do either) OR is it acceptable (although > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads > the firmware? I wonder if you're chasing ghosts; 4K stack kernels have a seperate stack for interrupts so... those should be safe. Btw, you forgot to post a pointer to the source code of your driver, so it's a lot harder for us (read: impossible) to give you good advice.. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/