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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] forcedeth: napi schedule lock fix
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From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:03:49 -0500

> This patch fixes a potential race condition between scheduling napi and completing napi poll. The call to netif_rx_schedule should be under protection of the lock (as is the completion), otherwise, interrupts could be masked off.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>

Another patch I had to apply by hand.

The 'dev' argument was removed from the netif_*() NAPI interfaces
and then were converted to napi_*() in the net-2.6 tree.