Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > Ingo Molnar wrote: [...] > >fix deadlock in the 8139too driver: poll handlers should never forcibly > >enable local interrupts, because they might be used by netpoll/printk > >from IRQ context. > > ACK > > (I'll queue it, if Linus doesn't pick it up; please CC me in the future)
I have lived with the "NAPI ->poll() handler runs in BH irq enabled context" rule for years. Is it definitely false/dead ? If so at least 8139cp needs the same fix. -- Ueimor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
