Re: bad: scheduling while atomic!: how bad?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Jun 18 2005 - 17:53:38 EST


On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 03:49:33PM -0700, David L wrote:
> [snip]
> >On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 14:59 -0700, David L wrote:
> >> I'm seeing the message:
> >>
> >> bad: scheduling while atomic!
> >>
> >> I see this dozens of times when I'm writing to a nand flash device using
> >a
> >> vendor-provided driver from Compulab in 2.6.8.1. Does this mean the
> >driver
> >> has a bug or is incompatible with the preemptive configuration option?
> >How
> >> bad is "bad"? Should I turn of the preemption option, ignore the
> >message,
> >> or what?
> >
> >can you post the sourcecode of the driver? it needs fixing...
> It's on-line at:
>
> http://www.compulab.co.il/686-developer.htm
>
> under "Linux - kernel, drivers and patches".
>
> After unzipping, it's in:
>
> Drivers & Patches 2.6/Flash Disk/cl_fdrv.tgz

that's only part of the source though... can you point at the full one ?
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