Re: Delay in a tasklet.

[Davide Rossetti]

Bouchard, Sebastien wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of writing a linux driver and I have a question in
> regards to tasklet :
>
> Is it ok to have large delay "udelay(1000);" in the tasklet?
>
> If not, what should I do? 
>
> Please send the answer to me personally (I'm not subscribe to the mailling
> list) :
>  
I'd be interested in the answer as well. I have a driver which does 
udelay(100), so no 1000 but anyway, and of course I end up having the 
X86_64 kernel happily crying. I'm moving to a little state-machine to 
allow for a multi-pass approach instead of busy-polling..
regards

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