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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Rene Mayrhofer <rene@mayrhofer.eu.org>,
	Richard Leitner <leitner@esys.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Add a mutex around ethtools operations
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:41:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090805174158.383dcc03@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7A0BAA.7020104@ring3k.org>

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:46:02 +0900
Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org> wrote:

> As multiple sky2 devices share some of the same hardware, and ethtool
> operations are per device, access to transmit timers, eeprom access,
>  coalesce, etc. should be serialized.
> 
> Only tested on a single port card, as my sky2 doesn't have dual ports.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>

NAK.
The ethtool operations are already serialized by rtnl mutex at
higher level.  See net/core/dev.c 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-06  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-05 22:46 [PATCH] sky2: Add a mutex around ethtools operations Mike McCormack
2009-08-06  0:41 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-08-06  0:42 ` Stephen Hemminger

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