Re: PCI Power Management / Interrupt Context

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[e-mail]>,
David T Eger  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>So I'm writing some code for a PCI card that is a framebuffer device, and
>happily filling in the functions for the probe() and remove() functions
>when I read documentation (Documentation/pci.txt) which mentions that
>remove() can be called from interrupt context.

This used to be true for a short while for hot-plug CardBus. I don't
think it is true any more - and if it is, that would be a bug.

So I think it's the documentation that is in error, and we should just
fix that.

Jeff?

		Linus