netdev - Re: netpoll + xmit

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Message-ID: <20090804001554.GA26942@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 4 Aug 2009 08:15:54 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	mpm@...enic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mcarlson@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: netpoll + xmit_lock == deadlock

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:07:04PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>
> My position has always been that such printk's are simply
> not allowed.  (check archives if you don't believe me :-)

Well that means we'd also have to ban printks from all IRQ handlers
etc.

Not that I dislike your way since it would makes things so much
simpler :)

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