El Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:04:08PM -0200 Martin Candurra ha dit:

>    Writing to a file probably puts the process to sleep. That is not possible
>    if you are in an interrupt context,
>    even if you could, the idea of an interrupt handler is to be as quick as
>    possible.
> 
>    You have to use Tasklets for what you want to do. You can check how to use
>    it from Linux Device Drivers book.

tasklets also run in interrupt context (on top of
softirqs). workqueues are the only bottom halve mechanism that allowes
sleeping.

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