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SubjectRe: Softnet/eepro100 driver conversion bug in 2.3.43pre8?
>>>>> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 18:19:53 -0800, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:

davidm> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:31:20 -0800 From: David
davidm> Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>

davidm> The following patch seems to fix the problem for me. I
davidm> think the cmpxchg should be #ifdef'd on HAVE_CMPXCHG but in
davidm> our experience, atomicity is important for updating
davidm> cmd_status, so if you can't do this atomically, you're
davidm> probably hosed anyhow (you'll get lots of Tx timeouts, at
davidm> least).

davem> I don't think it needs to be atomic at all.

That _sounds_ reasonably, I agree, but eepro100 gets tx timeouts very
frequently if the access to "status" is not atomic. I agree this
doesn't sound like the right solution, but I don't think it's worth
spending more time on this until the driver gets replaced with the
"other" eepro100 driver.

--david

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