From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] forcedeth: several proposed updates for testing Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:24:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4707A8A4.8030005@garzik.org> References: <20071006151250.GA17020@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ayaz Abdulla Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59190 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759446AbXJFPY3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:24:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20071006151250.GA17020@havoc.gtf.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > The goals of these changes are: > * move the driver towards a more sane, simple, easy to verify locking > setup -- irq handler would often acquire/release the lock twice > for each interrupt -- and hopefully s/and hopefully// (it became the next bullet point)