Re: Quick aic7xxx bug hunt...

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 02:44:11 EST


>Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> ahc_reset
>> aic7770_config -> can sleep
>> ahc_pci_config -> can sleep
>> ahc_shutdown -> can't sleep, whoops
>
>
>Though, to answer your question from a previous email, you can call the
>function in_interrupt() to see if you're in interrupt context.

Well... no, you can't rely on it for knowing if you can sleep or
not. in_interrupt() won't tell you interesting things like you
are holding a spinlock...

Ben.

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