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SubjectRe: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupt handler?
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
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ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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