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Re: [PATCH] Tulip interrupt uses non IRQ safe spinlock

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Tulip interrupt uses non IRQ safe spinlock
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 07:45:45 +1000
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:32:32PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005 07:32:20 +1000
> Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > However, AFAIK the tulip driver doesn't care about other interrupts.
> 
> Even the netdev watchdog?  :-)

The watchdog runs in softirq context which is disabled while the IRQ
handler is running.
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