From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
Gary Zambrano <zambrano@broadcom.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: drivers must not enable IRQ unconditionally in their NAPI handler
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:24:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45919305.90603@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061217220315.GA26485@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Francois Romieu wrote:
> net/core/netpoll.c::netpoll_send_skb() calls the poll handler when
> it is available. As netconsole can be used from almost any context,
> IRQ must not be enabled blindly in the NAPI handler of a driver which
> supports netpoll.
>
> b57bd06655a028aba7b92e1c19c2093e7fcfb341 fixed the issue for the
> 8139too.c driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
applied
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-17 22:03 [PATCH] netpoll: drivers must not enable IRQ unconditionally in their NAPI handler Francois Romieu
2006-12-26 21:24 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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