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Brad Hards wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:08, Rusty Russell wrote: > > + * Must be called from process context. Returns a negative error code > > + * if program was not execed successfully, or (exitcode << 8 + signal) > > + * of the application (0 if wait is not set). > Any chance that you can remove this (existing) restriction. It'd be good to be > able to use this in some networking code (eg netif_carrier_[off|on]() ), but > that might be in interrupt context. > > It may be just a matter of duplicating the arguments, but I really know SFA > about this stuff, and am loath to touch it least it turn to mush in my > fingers. > I vaguely seem to recall having done that once. It wasn't very pretty: int gfp_flags = in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL; Patch against 2.4.0-test13 is at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/1.txt - 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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