From: Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net_device: set_multicast_list called from interrupt?
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041004173505.7c441a1d@phoebee> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041004172621.3dd8945f@phoebee>
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:26:21 +0200
Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> bubbled:
> Hi there!
>
> I don't know if this is the right place, but I hope so.
>
> I wrote a network-driver years ago for the 2.4er kernel's.
>
> Now I ported it to the 2.6er kernel but I get some problems because
> set_multicast_list is called from an interrupt and my driver want's to
> free/allocate some memory.
>
> Why did the driver work under 2.4, and now stops running on 2.6?
>
> I had a look at http://lwn.net/Articles/30107/:
> Driver porting: Network drivers
>
> but there was nothing about newly implemented soft-interrupts.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
Ah, just tested it under 2.4er. It's called from an interrupt too.
So I have to workaround the free/alloc.
Sorry!
Martin
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2004-10-04 15:26 net_device: set_multicast_list called from interrupt? Martin Zwickel
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