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Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 09:49:52 -0400
Cc: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: MandrakeSoft
References: <3B23A4BB.7B4567A3@mandrakesoft.com> <20010610093838.A13074@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106101201490.9384-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com> <20010610173419.B13164@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <15140.5762.589629.252904@pizda.ninka.net> <3B24C185.824EBBE0@uow.edu.au> <15140.51018.942446.320621@pizda.ninka.net>
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton writes:
>  > It'd need to be callable from interrupt context - otherwise
>  > each device/driver which has link status change interrupts
>  > will need to implement some form of interrupt->process context
>  > trick.
> 
> Well, we could make the netif_carrier_*() implementation do the
> "interrupt->process context" trick.
> 
> Jamal can feel free to post what he has.

If we have any problems with context we can always use schedule_task()

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