netdev - Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:37:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se
Cc:	elendil@...net.nl, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	slavon@...telecom.ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc7: e1000: Detected Tx Unit Hang

From: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@...a.slu.se>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:00:57 +0100

>  I don't understand the idea with semaphore for enabling/disabling 
>  irq's either the overall logic must safer/better without it.  

They must have had code paths where they didn't know if IRQs were
enabled or not already, so they tried to create something which
approximates the:

	local_irq_save(flags);
	local_irq_restore(flags);

constructs we have for CPU interrupts, so they could go:

	e1000_irq_disable();
	/* ... */
	e1000_irq_enable();

and this would work even if the caller was running
with e1000 interrupts disabled already.

Or, something like that... it is indeed confusing.

Anyways, yes it's totally bogus and should be removed.
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