Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupthandler?

From: John Hughes
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 09:01:10 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
John Hughes <john@xxxxxxxxx> 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?

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