On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:00:04AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote:
Are we allowed to block in a timer callback? One of the things
thermal_check does is call a control method, which in turn can be very
slow, sleep, etc., so I'd guess that's why the code tries to execute
things in its own thread.
timers are run in bottom-half context. no sleeping allowed. if you're
going to linux.conf.au, you'll want to attend my talk that deals with
exactly this kind of thing ;-)
i'll put the paper up on the web in a couple of weeks, after the
proceedings are published.
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