From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:44:25 -0400
> David Miller wrote: > > From: Krishna Kumar2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:51:14 +0530 > > > >> David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/09/2007 04:32:55 PM: > >> > >>> Ignore LLTX, it sucks, it was a big mistake, and we will get rid of > >>> it. > >> Great, this will make life easy. Any idea how long that would take? > >> It seems simple enough to do. > > > > I'd say we can probably try to get rid of it in 2.6.25, this is > > assuming we get driver authors to cooperate and do the conversions > > or alternatively some other motivated person. > > > > I can just threaten to do them all and that should get the driver > > maintainers going :-) > > What, like this? :) Thanks, but it's probably going to need some corrections and/or an audit. If you unconditionally take those locks in the transmit function, there is probably an ABBA deadlock elsewhere in the driver now, most likely in the TX reclaim processing, and you therefore need to handle that too. - 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
