netdev - Re: [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:07:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jgarzik@...ox.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, adaplas@....net
Subject: Re: [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context

From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:01:49 -0400

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 07:57:03 +1000
> > 
> >> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:59:29AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> >>> Where is the patch? :-)
> >>>
> >>> Second time you've done this in two days Herbert, tsk tsk :)))
> >> The patch was so easy that it was left as an exercise to the reader :)
> >>
> >> [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context
> >>
> >> The spin_lock calls made in dev->open and dev->close must disable
> >> BH since open/close are made in process context.  Conversely, the
> >> call in dev->hard_start_xmit does not need to disable BH since it
> >> is already executing with BH disabled.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> > 
> > Applied, either Jeff or myself will make sure this gets into
> > Linus's tree.
> 
> Sounds like you got this one?

Yep.
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