Re: module_init in interrupt context ?

[Kai Germaschewski]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Armin Schindler wrote:

> With kernel 2.4.19 I noticed that calls from module_init()
> may be done in interrupt context. I didn't have a problem here
> before 2.4.17.

Well, I am positive that this is not so.

> E.g. in module_init() I use pci_module_init() for my driver
> (I don't have HOTPLUG enabled), the when the .probe function is called
> and the card is detected I create a proc entry for this new
> found device, but most of the time create_proc_entry causes
> BUG(), because it is called from interrupt context.

I think you should provide the backtrace and the code in questions. 
Obviously, something is wrong, but it's virtually impossible that 
module_init() runs from irq context, so it has to be something else.

--Kai