Re: calling call_usermodehelper from interrupt context

[Payasam Manohar]

hai Mr.Andrew,
   Thanks for ur help.
If u find some more info regarding this please send me. I want to call 
user program (let it be hello world program ) from keyboard driver,

> You'll need to run schedule_work() and then run call_usermodehelper() 
Is it the right way to do it.





  Thanks&Regards,

  P.Manohar,
  Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Payasam Manohar <pmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Is it possible to call call_usermodehelper from interrupt context.
>
> No.  You'll need to run schedule_work() and then run call_usermodehelper()
> from within the work function.
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