Re: "upping" a semaphore from interrupt context?

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 schrieb Satyam Sharma:
>          * 3. set up a timer and schedule another function to service the
>          *    interrupt / do what needs to be done then, hopefully the mutex
>          *    would be uncontended then => *gargh*

You could use schedule_work(). However then why not use it always.
This would make sense if what you want to do is outright trivial.

	Regards
		Oliver
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