On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:03 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em 28-07-2010 12:14, Maxim Levitsky escreveu:
> > Some handlers (lirc for example) allocates memory on initialization,
> > doing so in atomic context is cumbersome.
> > Fixes warning about sleeping function in atomic context.
>
> You should not replace it by a mutex, as the decoding code may happen during
> IRQ time on several drivers.
I though decoding code is run by a work queue?
I don't see any atomic codepath here...
>
> If lirc is allocating memory, it should be using GFP_ATOMIC to avoid sleeping.
If its really not possible, I can make lirc use GFP_ATOMIC. a bit ugly,
but should work.
Best regards,
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