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SubjectRe: sleeping in dev->tx_timeout?
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Abraham van der Merwe wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Is it safe to sleep in tx_timeout (in the networking code), i.e. to call
> schedule_timeout and friends from that routine?

No it's called from softirq context and with the dev->xmit_lock held in
places.

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