On 23 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 18:56, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > > You cannot use down() in xmit, as it may be called in interrupt context. I
> > > know it slows things down, but that's the only way I figured out of
> > > handling a transmission while the card is processing a long command.
> >
> > hu? no. you can do a down() as xmit is never called from interrupt context. and
> > the dev->hard_start_xmit() calls are serialized with the dev->xmit_lock. the
> > serialization is broken by the schedule_work() thing.
>
> If you are about to start a long command why not mark the device busy
> for transmit before starting ?
I thought about that some time ago. The problem I have in some cases is
that there are commands that, based on the status of the radio, may be
very fast or very long, I didn't think that marking the devide busy "just
in case" before every command was very efficient.
Javier Achirica
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