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

To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 06:27:38 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben LaHaise <bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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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.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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