Re: cli() / sti()
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:37:29 +0100 (BST)
> In ioctl part start_bh_atomic/end_bh_atomic is good replacement.
> In transmitter just delete them. hard_start_xmit's are serialized
> by top layer at the moment.
Are you sure. As it stands at the moment a hard_start_xmit from a user
context can be interrupted by a timer_bh hard_start_xmit
Alan