From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] net driver updates Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:59:04 -0500 Message-ID: <47C34838.3040502@garzik.org> References: <20080220.214651.235108740.davem@davemloft.net><8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334026D6511@maui.asicdesigners.com> <20080220.221554.128587906.davem@davemloft.net> <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334026D652F@maui.asicdesigners.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , krkumar2@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Divy Le Ray Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59875 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761307AbYBYW7N (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:59:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: <8A71B368A89016469F72CD08050AD334026D652F@maui.asicdesigners.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Divy Le Ray wrote: >> From: "Divy Le Ray" >> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:57:08 -0800 >> >>> The driver is cxgb3 here, it uses LLTX. >> That's extremely unfortunate, hopefully you can update it to >> use a model like tg3 and others use. LLTX is a lost cause >> for hardware device drivers, and in fact we'd like to remove >> it tree wide eventually. > > It sounds like I messed up. > cxgb3 does not use LLTX - The Chelsio driver does, thus should be > converted. So, it sounds like Krishna's patch is ok, because the race does not exist anymore in this driver? Jeff