netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 net-next-2.6] 3c59x: Use fine-grained locks for MII and windowed register access

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:15:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	chase.douglas@...onical.com, nordmark@...h.kth.se
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 net-next-2.6] 3c59x: Use fine-grained locks for MII
 and windowed register access

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:26:56 +0100

> This avoids scheduling in atomic context and also means that IRQs
> will only be deferred for relatively short periods of time.
> 
> Previously discussed in:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/155024
> 
> Reported-by: Arne Nordmark <nordmark@...h.kth.se>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Applied.
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