Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 02 Jan 2003 23:36:57 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Deprecate exec_usermodehelper, fix request_module. |
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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. > > It may be just a matter of duplicating the arguments, but I really know SFA > about this stuff, and am loath to touch it least it turn to mush in my > fingers. >
I vaguely seem to recall having done that once.
It wasn't very pretty:
int gfp_flags = in_interrupt() ? GFP_ATOMIC : GFP_KERNEL;
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