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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Dietmar Kling <dietmar.kling@sam-net.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Badness in isar_pump_statev_fax
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:11:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1135771898.2935.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43B27F9A.2060807@sam-net.de>

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:05 +0100, Dietmar Kling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during the holidays i tried to reactivate my old fax card,
> but i get a kind of oops in the system log. Fax is received, so
> is this really something to worry about?
> (cpuinfo, lspci is attached)


this is an mdelay(2) (or more depending on ioctls) in irq context...
that's naughty and nasty for latencies and potentially for time
keeping..

(but it's not an "immediate crash" kind of thing, just really sloppy/bad
code)


      reply	other threads:[~2005-12-28 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-28 12:05 Dietmar Kling
2005-12-28 12:11 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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