netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 8/7] pppoatm: fix missing wakeup in pppoatm

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Date:	Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:03:21 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@...lesie.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chas Williams - CONTRACTOR <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/7] pppoatm: fix missing wakeup in pppoatm_send()

On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 17:12 +0100, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
> It would require using atomic ops because also pppoatm_pop() can
> modify this word. I think it's better to add additional word instead
> of using atomic ops.

Or use the existing flags word, perhaps. Only one bit of which is
actually used already. We'd have to filter the new bit out in
pppoatm_devppp_ioctl().

-- 
dwmw2


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