From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:05:50 -0800
> 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. Great. I applied this patch, thanks everyone. - 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
