From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: andrewm@uow.edu.au (Andrew Morton)
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
frank@unternet.org (Frank de Lange),
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
manfred@colorfullife.com (Manfred Spraul),
dwmw2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:37:08 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101131237.f0DCb8g15518@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A5FCA86.4DB4682F@uow.edu.au> from "Andrew Morton" at Jan 13, 2001 02:24:54 PM
Andrew Morton writes:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I'm also nervous about the complete lack of locking in vortex_timer():
> > disabling interrupts doesn't mean that transmits couldn't be
> > pending. But maybe the hardware is ok with changing status concurrently.
>
> disable_irq() is very useful in functions such as this. It
> would be a shame to have to stop using it.
Doesn't the NCR53C9x SCSI drivers use disable_irq() a lot? Do they have
any problems?
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-12 17:16 QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:33 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 17:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:25 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:04 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:21 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:33 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:52 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 20:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14 0:13 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:11 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardwarerelated? Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 20:16 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:26 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:35 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 20:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 20:46 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 21:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-15 2:00 ` Jorge Nerin
2001-01-13 0:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:19 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 20:54 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 21:07 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 21:31 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 23:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 21:21 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 23:35 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:06 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 0:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:48 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 0:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 1:27 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 1:51 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 2:11 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-13 1:49 ` Jens Axboe
2001-01-13 2:12 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13 2:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 3:24 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-13 12:37 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-01-13 15:18 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6...) Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 23:55 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-14 0:18 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
2001-01-14 0:23 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic (was: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6...) J . A . Magallon
2001-01-14 2:14 ` Call for testers: ne2k-pci and io apic J . A . Magallon
2001-01-15 16:15 ` QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware Zdenek Kabelac
2001-01-13 1:38 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-13 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-12 18:08 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 18:45 ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-12 18:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 23:27 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-13 0:43 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-13 0:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 19:05 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-15 14:36 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-12 22:03 ` Latest status of IDE patches from Andre Jeff Nguyen
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