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Re: interrupt question

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:57 pm, Bahadir Balban wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a simple interface that generates an interrupt but updates the
> data register after approximately 70 ms.
>
> My question is, would it be reasonable to sleep for a short while in
> the bottom half of the handler before querying the data? My argument
> is that since the BH is interruptable it wouldnt do harm if I slept?
>

You can't sleep in interrupt/bh context. Try it and you will get an oops. For 
you particular problem, use a timer.

tavi

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