Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755500AbZDTNBJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:01:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755009AbZDTNA4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:56 -0400 Received: from oceanic.CalvaEDI.COM ([81.252.197.184]:38029 "EHLO oceanic.CalvaEDI.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754340AbZDTNA4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:00:56 -0400 Message-ID: <49EC7200.9080308@Calva.COM> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:00:48 +0200 From: John Hughes User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler? References: <49EC60BC.1070501@Calva.COM> <87ab6bpmc8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <87ab6bpmc8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 579 Lines: 21 Andi Kleen wrote: > John Hughes writes: > >> Am I being a naughty boy? >> > > Yes. > > Buggeration. What an irritating restriction. So I'll have to make a thread to do the firmware download, in which case I can just use request_firmware instead of request_firmware_nowait. Or can I use schedule_work? -- 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/