netdev - Re: [PATCH] smsc911x: Add spinlocks around registers access

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:37:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	catalin.marinas@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, steve.glendinning@...c.com,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc911x: Add spinlocks around registers access

From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:42:51 +0100

> On SMP systems, the SMSC911x registers may be accessed by multiple CPUs
> and this seems to put the chip in an inconsistent state. The patch adds
> spinlocks to the smsc911x_reg_read, smsc911x_reg_write,
> smsc911x_rx_readfifo and smsc911x_tx_writefifo functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks.
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