netdev - [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless transmit

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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 20:07:49 +0900
From:	Mike McCormack <mikem@...g3k.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] sky2: Resolve sky2_down/transmit races, lockless transmit

Hi Stephen,

Here is an alternate (and more intrusive) patch set to solve the
transmit during restart issues.

These patches avoid introducing a new state variable by

* reworking the transmit queue to work without locks
* tweaking sky2_down() to avoid invalid tx queue positions being
received in the status queue

Please let me know if this looks better,

thanks,

Mike
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