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Re: interrupt question

OK I found the answer. I should use a work_queue for my BH tasklet and a timer.


On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:09:19 +0200, Octavian Purdila <tavi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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