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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] can: add driver for Softing card
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:28:26 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:25:07PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> 
> Another option is to write a threaded interrupt handler.
It seems a threaded irq is the way to go.
During the implementation, a locking issue came up.
Am I right that within a threaded irq handler, I should use spin_lock_bh()
to prevent the ndo_start_xmit() to be called (ie. prevent the softirq).
> 

Kurt