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Subject: Re: pci_pool_free from IRQ
To: zaitcev@redhat.com (Pete Zaitcev)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:08:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Pete Zaitcev writes:

> Russel King complained that you might be calling pci_consistent_free
> from an interrupt, which is unsafe on ARM.

This sure makes life difficult. Device removal events can be called
from interrupt context according to Documentation/pci.txt. This is
certainly a place where one might want to call pci_consistent_free.