call_usermodehelper from a timer function ?

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Hi All,
I've got a doubt regarding the call to call_usermodehelper.
Can i invoke it from a timer function? One of the recent thread's on
this mailing list suggest that we can call it from module_init(to get
a process context). But i read somewhere that the process context for
call_usermodehelper is obtained by creating a thread from the
kernel-event daemon. If that is the case, can i invoke
call_usermodehelper from a timer function?

Thanks and Regards,
Indraneel

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