netdev - Re: Network driver questions

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Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:42:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Mile Davidovic <md4linux@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network driver questions

Mile Davidovic wrote:
> Hello,
> We have some dedicated interface for connecting various external
> devices (NOR, ONENAND, SMSC network adapter), similar to PCI except
> one big difference/restriction:
> 
> we can not work in atomic context because low lever drivers have such
> limitation.
> 
> I would like to write network driver (for SMSC chip for example) with
> this restriction.
> 
> Do we have some network driver which also have suffer from similar restrictions?

USB network drivers are probably dealing with similar restrictions
(no synchronous access to device registers).

Ben.

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