On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:56:35PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > > As I understand http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/12/239, something like the > patch below should had been sent instead. Herbert, ack/nak ?
Sorry, what I said in that thread is in error. Netpoll may unfortunately call the transmit routine with IRQs off. So the drivers can't currently use spin_lock_irq and must save the current flags instead. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
