netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: core: dev.c: use spin_lock

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Message-Id: <20100920.091407.241426689.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:14:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	m.nazarewicz@...sung.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: core: dev.c: use spin_lock_irqsave() rather than

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:03:41 +0200

> Hmm, while your patch is technically correct, it seems strange all this
> stuff runs in hard irq context.

I would much rather this RNDIS query response handler get
scheduled to run into softirq context or similar instead.

I am not applying this patch.
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