Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 00:16:47 +0100 | From | "Daniel J Blueman" <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver Etiquette |
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On 1 Jun, 19:40, "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote: > On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin@digium.com> wrote: > > > is it acceptable (although > > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads > > the firmware? > > I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware. Almost every > server I maintain has some vendor driver which generates a "many lost > ticks!" message on load. As long as it's only done at module load > time it should be fine.
For anything ~10s or more, you'll probably also need to call the timer update function to prevent soft lockup warning being generated.
> Of course the best solution is to just get the driver into mainline. > > Lee -- Daniel J Blueman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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