netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix a race between PCI probe and dev

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Message-ID: <20070201081727.GA1011@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:17:27 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix a race between PCI probe and dev_open

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> :
[...]
> Doesn't this basically mean that *any* use of "rtl8169_set_speed()" is 
> buggy?

The second use of rtl8169_set_speed is in the change_mtu handler which
performs a complete down/cycle after a release of the timer. It's still
ugly though. If the current buggy behavior can be lived with, I'll
happily postpone the needed deeper changes.

-- 
Ueimor
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