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Subject: Re: BUG: double spinlock in "drivers/net/3c505.c"
From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
To: Alexander Strakh <strakh@ispras.ru>
Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>,
       Craig Southeren <craigs@ineluki.apana.org.au>,
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Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:26:45 +0200
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On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:17 +0400, Alexander Strakh wrote: 
> 	KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.35-rc1
>         SUBJECT: duble spinlock  in function elp_start_xmit

Not only in elp_start_xmit. This driver is for a pretty old and slow isa
ethernet card and I think nobody cares. To quote a comment from the
source: "[...] the concurrency protection is particularly awful".

Thanks, 
   Christoph