Re: Device Driver Etiquette

[Daniel J Blueman]

On 1 Jun, 19:40, "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > is it acceptable (although
> > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads
> > the firmware?
>
> I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware.  Almost every
> server I maintain has some vendor driver which generates a "many lost
> ticks!" message on load.  As long as it's only done at module load
> time it should be fine.

For anything ~10s or more, you'll probably also need to call the timer
update function to prevent soft lockup warning being generated.

> Of course the best solution is to just get the driver into mainline.
>
> Lee
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Daniel J Blueman
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