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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@pol.net
Subject: Re: [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:01:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A8D9D.6070604@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070409.115625.08346514.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 07:57:03 +1000
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:59:29AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>>> Where is the patch? :-)
>>>
>>> Second time you've done this in two days Herbert, tsk tsk :)))
>> The patch was so easy that it was left as an exercise to the reader :)
>>
>> [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context
>>
>> The spin_lock calls made in dev->open and dev->close must disable
>> BH since open/close are made in process context.  Conversely, the
>> call in dev->hard_start_xmit does not need to disable BH since it
>> is already executing with BH disabled.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> Applied, either Jeff or myself will make sure this gets into
> Linus's tree.

Sounds like you got this one?

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-05  2:04 Fw: Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4 Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 11:44 ` [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context (was: 2.6.21-rc5-mm4) Herbert Xu
2007-04-05 16:59   ` [SC92031]: Fix priv->lock context David Miller
2007-04-05 21:57     ` Herbert Xu
2007-04-06  1:10       ` Antonino A. Daplas
2007-04-09 18:56       ` David Miller
2007-04-09 19:01         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-04-09 19:07           ` David Miller

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