Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: hardirq lockdep warning

[Arjan van de Ven]

> That's "fix deadlock", not "fix lockdep warning".  However it's often the
> case that it's not really deadlockable because (often) the card's IRQ line
> has been disabled.  That appears to be the case in nv_do_nic_poll()'s call
> to nv_nic_irq_tx, for example.

except when it's a shared irq line, then the game rules changed ;)
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