Lee Revell wrote:
> Um, but it's really really bad for drivers to do that.
Not really. The Windows driver calls kernel API (in this case ndiswraper
functions) whenever it needs to wait on an event, sleep etc. So if preempt
is enabled on the way back (from Windows driver to Linux kernel call), it
shouldn't be a problem as far as preempt is concerned.
Giri
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