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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Subject: Re: [2.5.66-mm3+debug] traces.
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:14:27 -0800
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"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> You simply cannot take BH locks inside of IRQ disabling
> ones, this is true 2.4.x too it just doesn't BUG() on you there
> (you get a potential deadlock instead).

I don't recall seeing a description or discussion of this deadlock.  Any
pointers?

> This patch should go through the Tulip maintainer (Jeff I guess)
> especially since it's a fix that belongs in 2.4.x as well.

Yup, I'll spam Jeff.