Re: [PATCH post 2.6.28] firewire: core: fix sleep in atomic contextdue to driver core change

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 16:17:39 EST


On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:49:37 +0100 (CET)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Due to commit 2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3, "driver core:
> create a private portion of struct device", device_initialize() can no
> longer be called from atomic contexts.

I don't see why this is neccessary or appropriate - the original commit
needs to be pulled and the private area allocation rethought.
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