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

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Message-id: <op.vjcciqgk7p4s8u@pikus>
Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:07:28 +0200
From:	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	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

On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:14:07 +0200, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> 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.

Eh...  I'll try to look at RNDIS than.

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