netdev - Re: [PATCH] macb: Add support of the netpoll API

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Message-Id: <20090417.023357.121366056.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:33:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com
Cc:	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	michael@...e-electrons.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] macb: Add support of the netpoll API

From: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:25:53 +0200

> I guess you're right -- we just have to be careful about calling
> printk() from within the driver. But it seems a lot easier to just drop
> the lock before dumping an error message than it is to work around that
> disable_irq() deadlock. And if you're running with verbose debugging
> enabled, you probably shouldn't be using netconsole anyway.

Therefore, do you agree to add Thomas's patch as-is?

If so please provide an Acked-by:
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