On Wed July 23 2003 22:43, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:56:58PM +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > [shortening the cc: list a bit..]
> >
> > On Wed July 23 2003 12:26, Javier Achirica 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.
>
> hard_start_xmit is called from BH-disabled context, so Javier is
> basically correct.
hmm...sorry for making noise...i really should read more of the kernel/networking code.
javier, then please send your latest (1.53) diff to jeff and i'm shuting up.
-daniel
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