Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > >Well, wait_event_interruptible_timeout() schedules, so at a quick glance >this will not work for i2c-ibm_iic at least. But more generally... > > I think I got that one. If you look at the function in the patch, I made some changes to that. >I started to rewrite i2c-i801 [1] to use interrupts rather than pure >polling as it does now, so I'm interested to know: how can the panic-time >operation work for bus drivers that need interrupts? > > What I have done in the IPMI driver is when you wait for an operation, if you are in a panic then call the interrupt handler continuously until the operation completes. Sort of like the network polling does. Thanks, -Corey
