Re: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Montag 30 März 2009 01:32:34 schrieb Larry Finger:
> On an SMP system, the following message is printed. The patch below gets
> fixes the problem.

Thanks for this report and the patch. I think, however that it introduces
unneeded locking. It seems to me that we should be fine if we fix
kaweth_start_xmit(). That code assumes that it is called with interrupts
off and under a spinlock. Is that incorrect?

	Regards
		Oliver

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