MFD: mutex from ISR in ezx-pcap?

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 15:35:07 EST


Hi,

pcap_adc_irq tries to perform non-atomic operations in ISR which is not
allowed. Above that, it may deadlock.

Since all the operations there (read, write, mutex locking) may sleep,
any objections to convert the ISR contents to a workqueue?
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