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Re: "Close NETIF_F_LLTX race conditions" problem

To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: "Close NETIF_F_LLTX race conditions" problem
From: Eric Lemoine <eric.lemoine@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:16:53 +0100
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:19:04 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi
<hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got the following warning. The cause of this warning is the context
> of ->hard_start_xmit() was changed. Before that patch the IRQ was
> enableing, but now it was disabled.
> 
> With this change, the assumption of some drivers was changed, so now
> some drivers need to change the ->hard_start_xmit().
> (e.g, dev_kfree_skb() -> dev_kfree_skb_irq(), spin_lock_irq() -> spin_lock()).

This is a known issue (in 2.6.11-rc2). Linus' tree should certainly
include the revert patch at this time.

--
Eric

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