On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Daniele Bellucci wrote:

> Hi,
> i've found some usb_buffer_alloc with GFP_KERNEL on in a probe function (kernel 
> 2.5.70).
> Since "probe" isn't ever called in process context... is that correct?

You have that exactly backwards.  probe() is _always_ called in process 
context, in fact in the context of the khubd kernel thread.

Alan Stern



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