Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: sleeping in dev->tx_timeout? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 03 Aug 2003 21:54:54 +0100 |
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On Sul, 2003-08-03 at 20:48, Jeff Garzik wrote: > These days drivers often need quite a while for hardware reset. I am > pushing to move this code, long term, into process context. So, in > tx_timeout: > * disable NIC and interrupts as best you can, quickly > * schedule_task/schedule_work to schedule the full hardware reset
And if the hardware is hard to recover or needs messy recovery code take a look at the PCI layer tricks in -ac
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