Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt6, skge vs. sk98lin

[Jeff Garzik]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> I'm running 2.6.14-rc4-rt6 and trying the skge driver instead of the
> sk98lin and I'm getting these warnings in my logs (this is probably not
> related to the rt patch):
>
>   network driver disabled interrupts: skge_xmit_frame+0x0/0x320 [skge]
>
> No other relevant messages around that I can see. Is this a bug? Any
> information I could supply to help debug it?

This is a bogus message added by the -rt patch.  It is not a bug.

The trylock scheme in some newer net drivers (grep for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED) 
uses local_irq_save/restore because there is no 
spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API.

	Jeff


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