From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: khc@pm.waw.pl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, khali@linux-fr.org,
linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: I2C from interrupt context?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:47:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106.154754.02648408.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3bpws8ln3.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:44:48 +0100
[ Fixed i2c list address, it's now hosted at vger ]
> I'm updating my EEPROM console logger and have encountered a problem
> - the logger (as any console) can be called with hardware interrupts
> disabled and/or from interrupt context. It needs to write to I^2C
> (using ARM (Xscale) GPIO) and possibly SMBUS-only EEPROM chip. Is it
> at all supposed to be possible?
Not really. The I2C operations need to be able to sleep and that's
not allowed in interrupt context.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-06 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-06 23:44 Krzysztof Halasa
2008-11-06 23:47 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-11-07 9:11 ` Jean Delvare
2008-11-07 16:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-11-11 7:57 ` Andrew Morton
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