Re: [rtl] context

[yodaiken@fsmlabs.com]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:24:36PM +0100, kissg@sztaki.hu wrote:
> Documentation says quite few about that what context API functions
> can be called.
> 
> Especially I have to know if rtf_put() can be called from
> init_module() or not.
> 
> I can see, that content of rtf_put() is mostly harmless.
> Only rtl_critical() and rtl_end_critical() are suspicious.
> These macros are expanded to rtl_no_interrupts(), rtl_spin_lock() and
> similar operations that call another strange functions in unknown depth.
> 
> So is anybody out there who knows the answer? ;-)
> 

rtf_put is safe everywhere. It does cause a small realtime delay
so 
 while(1)rtf_put
is not advised, but there is no problem with using the function
in rt mode.

> Gabor
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