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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:04:08 +0100
From:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] smc911x: Make the driver safer on SMP

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 07:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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