Re: hotplug and interrupt context

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sun Mar 11 2001 - 22:18:18 EST

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Andreas Bombe wrote:
>
> I couldn't trace that down to be 100% sure and it's better to conform to
> design than implementation, so I'll ask:
>
> Do the probe and remove functions of a pci_driver have to be able to
> work in interrupt context? (i.e. GFP_ATOMIC and stuff)

No, no interrupt context to worry about. It would really suck if you
couldn't sleep in pci_driver::probe :)

For CardBus, it calls schedule_task ..

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