Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2007 12:07:12 +0530 | From | "Learning Linux" <> | Subject | Why can't we sleep in an ISR? |
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I have a very basic doubt here ... what makes it impossible to sleep in an ISR? I mean, I know that the kernel preemption is disabled and the kernel will panic, but I could not understand why?
TIA,
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