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From: Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>
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On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:53:56 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> What do you think of Ingo's solution of trying to move the problematic
> call to mdio_read out of the spinlocked section?  It does seem that the

Can't comment on that, I missed it. I am aware that locking in via-rhine
needs work, though, it's one of the things I haven't touched.

> awfully long time.  In a live audio setting you would actually get lots
> of media events.

Don't trip over the network cables. Duh.

Roger