netdev - Re: [PATCH] Netpoll support for Sibyte MAC

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Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:35:53 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@....ocn.ne.jp>
Cc:	dsaxena@...xity.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
	jeff@...zik.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, mlachwani@...sta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Netpoll support for Sibyte MAC

Hello.

Atsushi Nemoto wrote:

>>NETPOLL support for Sibyte MAC

>>Signed-off-by: Manish Lachwani <mlachwani@...sta.com>
>>Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...sta.com>

> If you added NETPOLL support, do not forget to ensure hard_start_xmit
> routine callable from interrupt context (or irq disabled).
> See commit bce305f4fe779f29d99d414685243f5da0803254 for example.

    You're absolutely right: this driver is very likely to blow up the caller 
when called with interrupts disabled -- it uses spin_unlock_irq() there! This 
*must* be fixed.

> ---
> Atsushi Nemoto

WBR, Sergei
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