netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix deadlock between boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start

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Message-ID: <20100813151556.GA27733@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:15:56 -0400
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix deadlock between boomerang_interrupt and
	boomerang_start_tx in 3c59x

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> wrote:
>
> I thought we agreed that any device supporting netconsole agrees
> to not call printk in the transmit path. Just kill the pr_* call.

Not calling printk from the driver doesn't help since you can
still call printk from an IRQ handler.

Cheers,
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