linux-kernel - Re: BUG: double spinlock in "drivers/net/3c505.c"

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Message-Id: <1276003605.3916.14.camel@lovely>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:26:45 +0200
From:	Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@...glemail.com>
To:	Alexander Strakh <strakh@...ras.ru>
Cc:	Philip Blundell <philb@....org>,
	Craig Southeren <craigs@...luki.apana.org.au>,
	Andrew Tridgell <tridge@...bus.anu.edu.au>,
	Alan Cox <Alan.Cox@...ux.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BUG: double spinlock in "drivers/net/3c505.c"

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:17 +0400, Alexander Strakh wrote: 
> 	KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.35-rc1
>         SUBJECT: duble spinlock  in function elp_start_xmit

Not only in elp_start_xmit. This driver is for a pretty old and slow isa
ethernet card and I think nobody cares. To quote a comment from the
source: "[...] the concurrency protection is particularly awful".

Thanks, 
   Christoph


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