Re: Short question regarding generic_make_request()

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Mon, 4 Feb 2002 01:24:20 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Steffen Persvold wrote:

> OK, so are there any other way I can submit a block request from a
> tasklet (that is interrupt context, right ?) ?

submitting IO is something that needs a process context currently, ie. a
helper kernel thread.

Ingo

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