On 11.05.2010 20:53, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> On 05/10/2010 07:09 PM, Oliver Hartkopp wrote:

>> i wonder whether it is enough just to settle the register write of the
>> command register by adding the ndelay().
> 
> We need some protection, of course. Also, ndelay() is not available on
> all archs and might be mapped to udelay(1). In the patch you posted, an
> extra read is done for that purpose, I assume.

Yes. That was surely Klaus' intention - i just copied this little sniplet ;-)


>> But IMO additionally the tx path should probably generally take the
>> hands of the chip, when the used hard-irq for rx operations is active.
>>
>> I would suggest sja1000_interrupt() and sja1000_start_xmit() not to run
>> together. What about some _bh-locking in sja1000_start_xmit() ???
> 
> Yes, fine, especially if it does solve the issue with the command
> register as well?

As Kurt already pointed out the _bh locking is probably not enough here - i
think it's only used for blocking soft-irqs ...

Will take a closer look ...

Regards,
Oliver
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