"Prasanta Sadhukhan" <prasanta@tataelxsi.co.in> wrote:
>
> So my question is whether we can call unregister_netdev() function from
> interrupt context(i.e, in ISR process context)
No, you cannot.
This is a bug which occurs in multiple places in the pcmcia code. usually it
is doing illegal things from within timer handlers. In your case, within
hard IRQ context.
Your fix (using schedule_task()) is fine. It is the preferred way to resolve
this bug.
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