Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: hardirq lockdep warning

Arjan van de Ven
2006-09-20T01:04:57Z

> That's "fix deadlock", not "fix lockdep warning". However it's often the
> case that it's not really deadlockable because (often) the card's IRQ line
> has been disabled. That appears to be the case in nv_do_nic_poll()'s call
> to nv_nic_irq_tx, for example.
>

except when it's a shared irq line, then the game rules changed ;)