On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 11:41 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the basic question is: Is request_irq allowed to sleep?
yes it sleeps.
problem is some (IDE) code calls it really early during boot in a place
you can't sleep, and during that early boot it also usually won't sleep.
Just that if we make request_irq() a might_sleep() then everyone gets
spew in their dmesg... and lots of bugreports
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