Re: PCI Power Management / Interrupt Context

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 13:41:26 EST


In article <Pine.SOL.4.21.0106262208240.3824-100000@oscar.cc.gatech.edu>,
David T Eger <eger@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and
>happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions
>when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that
>remove() can be called from interrupt context.

This used to be true for a short while for hot-plug CardBus. I don't
think it is true any more - and if it is, that would be a bug.

So I think it's the documentation that is in error, and we should just
fix that.

Jeff?

                Linus
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