Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:36:38 -0700 | Subject | Re: regd: sleeping in atomic |
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/16/2010 05:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> one iteration of call_crda() which happens during module >> initialization and from what I gather I don't think the kernel is >> happy when you mutex_lock on load routines, please correct my foggy >> memory if I am mistaken. > > No, using mutex in init/exit module routines is fine. Where do you have the > information from?
A snag I hit when trying this a while ago on reg.c. I suppose the real issue could have been something else.
> There might be problems only with request_module, > flush_scheduled_work or similar.
OK -- then in that case I think using a mutex would work here, unless John spots any other issues.
Luis
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