Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jun 2001 00:21:36 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1 |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton writes: > > > It'd need to be callable from interrupt context - otherwise > > > each device/driver which has link status change interrupts > > > will need to implement some form of interrupt->process context > > > trick. > > > > Well, we could make the netif_carrier_*() implementation do the > > "interrupt->process context" trick. > > > > Jamal can feel free to post what he has. > > If we have any problems with context we can always use schedule_task()
Yep. With dev_hold() and dev_put() to avoid module removal races. One would also have to be sure that the right things happen if the interface is downed between the interrupt and execution of the schedule_task() callback. - 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/
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