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Message-ID: <41624.10.250.10.1.1175821805.squirrel@webmail.medscape.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:10:05 +0800 (PHT)
From:	"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@....net>
To:	<herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <adaplas@....net>, <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context

> 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 :)

I did try, but it was too much for me :-)

>
> [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.
>

Yes, this patch did the trick.

Thanks.

Tony



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