Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:11:48 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler? |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:00:48PM +0200, John Hughes wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >John Hughes <john@Calva.COM> writes: > > > >>Am I being a naughty boy? > >> > > > >Yes. > > > > > Buggeration. What an irritating restriction. > > So I'll have to make a thread to do the firmware download, in which case > I can just use request_firmware instead of request_firmware_nowait. > > Or can I use schedule_work?
That's what it is for yes.
-Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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