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From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt6, skge vs. sk98lin
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:02:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1129600953.5031.6.camel@cmn3.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435456A1.6020208@pobox.com>

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > I'm running 2.6.14-rc4-rt6 and trying the skge driver instead of the
> > sk98lin and I'm getting these warnings in my logs (this is probably not
> > related to the rt patch):
> > 
> >   network driver disabled interrupts: skge_xmit_frame+0x0/0x320 [skge]
> > 
> > No other relevant messages around that I can see. Is this a bug? Any
> > information I could supply to help debug it?
> 
> This is a bogus message added by the -rt patch.  It is not a bug.
> 
> The trylock scheme in some newer net drivers (grep for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED) 
> uses local_irq_save/restore because there is no 
> spin_trylock_irqsave/spin_trylock_failed_irqrestore API.

Would it have any undesirable effect to find this and comment it out?
There are quite a few messages in the logs. Knowing it is not a bug I
may try the driver a bit more (I rebooted into sk98lin just in case ;-)

Thanks for the info. 
-- Fernando



  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18  1:45 2.6.14-rc4-rt6, skge vs. sk98lin Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
2005-10-18  1:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-10-18  2:02   ` Fernando Lopez-Lezcano [this message]
2005-10-18 16:50     ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-10-19  6:48       ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-19 11:15         ` Ingo Molnar

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