netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: allwinner: remove redundant irqsave and irqrestore in hardIRQ

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:34:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mripard@...nel.org,
        wens@...e.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allwinner: remove redundant irqsave and
 irqrestore in hardIRQ

From: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 13:56:15 +1200

> The comment "holders of db->lock must always block IRQs" and related
> code to do irqsave and irqrestore don't make sense since we are in a
> IRQ-disabled hardIRQ context.
> 
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.