netdev - Re: [PATCH]: 8139cp: Don't blindly enable interrupts in cp_start

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:34:13 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	Chris Lalancette <clalance@...hat.com>, jgarzik@...ox.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: 8139cp: Don't blindly enable interrupts in cp_start_xmit

On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:56:35PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> 
> As I understand http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/12/239, something like the
> patch below should had been sent instead. Herbert, ack/nak ?

Sorry, what I said in that thread is in error.  Netpoll may
unfortunately call the transmit routine with IRQs off.  So
the drivers can't currently use spin_lock_irq and must save
the current flags instead.

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