netdev - Re: [PATCH / RFC] net: don't grab a mutex within a timer context in gianfar

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Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:16:00 -0500
From:	Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>
To:	Sebastian Siewior <netdev@...breakpoint.cc>
Cc:	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Li Yang <leoli@...escale.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis.antoniou@...il.com>,
	Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@...mvista.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH / RFC] net: don't grab a mutex within a timer context
	in gianfar

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:03 +0200, Sebastian Siewior wrote:
> I moved it into a workqueue, this is what tg3 does.
> I would convert the other three drivers unless $dude suggests a better
> method or somebody else takes care....
> 
>  drivers/net/gianfar.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/net/gianfar.h |    2 ++
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

This looks good to me.

-- 
Nate Case <ncase@...-inc.com>

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