Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:49:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PCI Power Management / Interrupt Context |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <Pine.SOL.4.21.0106262208240.3824-100000@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>, > David T Eger <eger@cc.gatech.edu> wrote: > > > >So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and > >happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions > >when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that > >remove() can be called from interrupt context. > > This used to be true for a short while for hot-plug CardBus. I don't > think it is true any more - and if it is, that would be a bug. > > So I think it's the documentation that is in error, and we should just > fix that. > > Jeff?
Correct, pci_driver::remove does not get called from interrupt context.
I don't know where the heck this thread is coming from ;-) The docs appear to be correct:
> remove Pointer to a function which gets called whenever a device > being handled by this driver is removed (either during > deregistration of the driver or when it's manually pulled > out of a hot-pluggable slot). This function always gets > called from process context, so it can sleep.
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