netdev - Re: [PATCH] netxen: drop redudant spinlock

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Message-ID: <46AE416F.1070501@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:52:15 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netxen: drop redudant spinlock

Dhananjay Phadke wrote:
> Some leftover code that makes use of adapter->lock in tx_timeout function,
> which resets the interface under this lock. In close() when the workqueue
> is flushed, prints the warning about sleeping with interrupts disabled
> (when spinlock debug is enabled). The lock was required with private netxen
> IOCTLs, which were removed a while ago.

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