On Thursday, 15. November 2001 06:25, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> So we are in agreement here. It is legal to sleep, but extremely
> annoying when probing takes a long time. It also may be an issue
> with fast-boot systems for kiosks and cash registers.
Thanks to all for clarifying!
best regards
Wol
> > I did not see the original message from Dmitry. I disagree,
> > probe() only happens on the context of the insmod or its
> > children, or in init, or khubd. It certainly can call schedule().
>
> It can indeed, but khubd is the problem. It was discussed extensively on
> l-u-d at least 1 year a
Quoting Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > From: Wolfgang Mües <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:27:24 +0100
>
> > > If you have initialization done in probe() then it is automatically
> > > wrong, at very least because you are not running in freely b
On Wednesday, 14. November 2001 20:18, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I did not see the original message from Dmitry. I disagree,
> probe() only happens on the context of the insmod or its
> children, or in init, or khubd. It certainly can call schedule().
Yes. But I have problems in calling functions li
> From: Wolfgang Mües <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:27:24 +0100
> > If you have initialization done in probe() then it is automatically
> > wrong, at very least because you are not running in freely blockable
> > thread.
>
> If I *have* to do some initia
On Friday, 2. November 2001 23:59, Dmitri wrote:
> If you have initialization done in probe() then it is automatically
> wrong, at very least because you are not running in freely blockable
> thread.
If I *have* to do some initialisation in probe(), what should I do?
(Sending about 5-10 control
On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 14:23, kevin wrote:
> I have a webcam module driver working fairly well, with the exception
> that if the driver is loaded before the camera is plugged in, the camera
> frequently does not initialize correctly. It seems to work nearly always
> if the camera is already p
I have a webcam module driver working fairly well, with the exception
that if the driver is loaded before the camera is plugged in, the camera
frequently does not initialize correctly. It seems to work nearly always
if the camera is already plugged in when the driver is loaded; the
camera
