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
