From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Matthew Fredrickson" <creslin@digium.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Device Driver Etiquette
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:38:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b66ecd0706011138v25e0d352p2fe5c4b5b8933046@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a714c0e137cf5cf814e790e3fdef23c8@digium.com>
On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson <creslin@digium.com> wrote:
> is it acceptable (although
> not nice) to simply fix it this way, by disabling irqs while it loads
> the firmware?
>
I would say to just disable IRQs while loading firmware. Almost every
server I maintain has some vendor driver which generates a "many lost
ticks!" message on load. As long as it's only done at module load
time it should be fine.
Of course the best solution is to just get the driver into mainline.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 17:47 Matthew Fredrickson
2007-06-01 18:38 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2007-06-01 22:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-02 15:05 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-02 23:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-03 1:45 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-06-01 23:16 Daniel J Blueman
[not found] <12467610.159201180797054019.JavaMail.root@jupiler.digium.com>
2007-06-02 15:12 ` Matt Fredrickson
2007-06-03 11:22 ` Daniel J Blueman
[not found] <17916027.160971180851607681.JavaMail.root@jupiler.digium.com>
2007-06-03 6:20 ` Matt Fredrickson
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