On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:05 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > ACK, of course, but this brings up something else: what's the status of > moving chip reset outside of a spinlock? > > Currently a reset during operation can trigger the CPU lockup detector > and other doo-dads, because you can easily spend a second or two with a > spinlock held (a loooooong time, to hold a spinlock) >
Yeah, I will put this in my queue. I have done some of that in the PHY routines and will continue to do more, as those are even worse. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
