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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC] SPI core: turn transfers to be linked list
Greg KH wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:49:11AM +0300, Vitaly Wool wrote:
>
>
>>The problem is: we're using real-time enhancements patch developed by
>>Ingo/Sven/Daniel etc. You cannot call kmalloc from the interrupt
>>context if you're using this patch.
>>
>>
>
>So you can't even call:
> kmalloc(sizeof(foo), GFP_ATOMIC);
>in an interrupt anymore?
>If so, that's going to break mainline pretty bad...
>
>
Don't think it will... Since most of the interrupts will work in threads
pretty well... and it's np to alloc memory from threads.

Vitaly
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