Re: regd: sleeping in atomic

[Jiri Slaby]

On 03/16/2010 05:18 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> one iteration of call_crda() which happens during module
> initialization and from what I gather I don't think the kernel is
> happy when you mutex_lock on load routines, please correct my foggy
> memory if I am mistaken.

No, using mutex in init/exit module routines is fine. Where do you have 
the information from? There might be problems only with request_module, 
flush_scheduled_work or similar.
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