David Miller wrote:
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.
I would be happy if someone wanted to audit that patch.
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.
And I most certainly checked the relevant transmit paths and other
locking to make sure lock ordering was correct.
Jeff
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