Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:25:32 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module. |
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On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:21:57PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 16:08, Rusty Russell wrote: > > + * Must be called from process context. Returns a negative error code > > + * if program was not execed successfully, or (exitcode << 8 + signal) > > + * of the application (0 if wait is not set). > Any chance that you can remove this (existing) restriction. It'd be good to be > able to use this in some networking code (eg netif_carrier_[off|on]() ), but > that might be in interrupt context.
The link up/down notifications added in recent 2.5.x should eliminate a need to fiddle while in interrupt context...
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