From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764042AbXJFPYl (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:24:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759527AbXJFPYa (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:24:30 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59190 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759446AbXJFPY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:24:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4707A8A4.8030005@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:24:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ayaz Abdulla CC: LKML , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] forcedeth: several proposed updates for testing References: <20071006151250.GA17020@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20071006151250.GA17020@havoc.gtf.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > The goals of these changes are: > * move the driver towards a more sane, simple, easy to verify locking > setup -- irq handler would often acquire/release the lock twice > for each interrupt -- and hopefully s/and hopefully// (it became the next bullet point)