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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netpoll: drivers must not enable IRQ unconditionally
 in their NAPI handler
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:24:21 -0500
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	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>,
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	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
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Francois Romieu wrote:
> net/core/netpoll.c::netpoll_send_skb() calls the poll handler when
> it is available. As netconsole can be used from almost any context,
> IRQ must not be enabled blindly in the NAPI handler of a driver which
> supports netpoll.
> 
> b57bd06655a028aba7b92e1c19c2093e7fcfb341 fixed the issue for the
> 8139too.c driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>

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