Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jun 2007 07:15:39 +0530 | From | "Satyam Sharma" <> | Subject | Re: Device Driver Etiquette |
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On 6/3/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 12:47 -0500, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > > My question is this: is there a way to either work around the problem I > > am seeing with the stack without recompiling the kernel with 8K stack > > size or without disabling irqs for such a long period of time (which I > > think is not a nice thing to do either) OR is it acceptable (although > > not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads > > the firmware? > > I wonder if you're chasing ghosts; 4K stack kernels have a seperate > stack for interrupts so... those should be safe.
Argh, yes, thanks for reminding/correcting all of us :-)
> Btw, you forgot to post a pointer to the source code of your driver, so > it's a lot harder for us (read: impossible) to give you good advice..
Right, and dmesg / debug output of when things go wrong is also needed at the very least to confirm whether or not there is really a stack overflow issue here in the first place.
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