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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18 1/3] tg3: Remove unnecessary tx_lock
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:47:23 -0700

> Remove tx_lock where it is unnecessary. tg3 runs lockless and so it
> requires interrupts to be disabled and sync'ed, netif_queue and NAPI
> poll to be stopped before the device can be reconfigured. After
> stopping everything, it is no longer necessary to get the tx_lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

Applied, thanks.