netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP

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Message-ID: <48FF0807.8060501@garzik.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:01:27 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP

Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This patch extends the critical regions covered by lp->lock to make it
> safer on SMP. The main failure point was the smc911x_hard_start_xmit
> function being called from different CPUs. It was tested on the ARM SMP
> platforms.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/smc911x.c |   25 ++++++++-----------------
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

applied 1-3


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