linux-kernel - Re: Device Driver Etiquette

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Date:	Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:22:00 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Matthew Fredrickson <creslin@...ium.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Device Driver Etiquette

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.

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..

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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