Re: Am I allowed to call request_firmware_nowait from an interrupthandler?

[John Hughes]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> John Hughes <john@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   
> > Am I being a naughty boy?
> >     
>
> Yes.
>
>   
Buggeration.  What an irritating restriction.

So I'll have to make a thread to do the firmware download, in which case 
I can just use request_firmware instead of request_firmware_nowait.

Or can I use schedule_work?

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