Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:58:23 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: calling context of unregister_netdev |
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"Prasanta Sadhukhan" <prasanta@tataelxsi.co.in> wrote: > > So my question is whether we can call unregister_netdev() function from > interrupt context(i.e, in ISR process context)
No, you cannot.
This is a bug which occurs in multiple places in the pcmcia code. usually it is doing illegal things from within timer handlers. In your case, within hard IRQ context.
Your fix (using schedule_task()) is fine. It is the preferred way to resolve this bug.
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