Subject: Re: PCMCIA madness
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Stefan Grefen <grefen@hprc.tandem.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/07/1998 10:18:30
In message <199809070722.JAA14009@animal.cs.chalmers.se>  Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
> > This sounds like a job for timeout();
> It is a job for timeout().  But you need some serios restructuring to
> be able to call timeout(), because the call to delay() is from an
> interrupt context where timeout() is not possible.

???? Of course you can call timeout from an interrupt context, the
callback won't happen in one. 
Thats needs restructuring of the pcmcia layer too, but that isn't a bad
thing, it should be more event based anyway :-))

Stefan

> 
>           -- Lennart

--
Stefan Grefen                                Tandem Computers Europe Inc.
grefen@hprc.tandem.com                       High Performance Research Center
 --- Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge. ---