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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl
To: Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Subject: Re: current->state after kmalloc
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In article <16Xu62-2F1K08C@fwd04.sul.t-online.com> you wrote:

> usb_submit_urb() uses kmalloc internally.
> To code a simple waiting for the results of an urb,
> it is necessary.

Can't you just alloc the memory outside this "current" area ?
Even if that means you have to release it if you don't use it
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