From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763444AbXFASij (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:38:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762922AbXFASic (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:38:32 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.179]:62292 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761282AbXFASib (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:38:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=f10qxn4fMJlItGgezgfHu5xpyzUG81fiFPs6DmK0IGUzrmJ+SNhRL4I2n1SPjHsZCWDE3e+vew8GwEDmFxUbCWpngbPsRy1HV3g66xS676jr4jp8uptNa55v2djSAg3Ln0vskOksZP6AUKf09Hk+pcU3GnccDftcD7Mc5zYlCjo= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0706011138v25e0d352p2fe5c4b5b8933046@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:38:30 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: "Matthew Fredrickson" Subject: Re: Device Driver Etiquette Cc: linux-kernel In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Google-Sender-Auth: 203f636b8aed7603 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 6/1/07, Matthew Fredrickson 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