Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:37:08 +0000 (GMT) |
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Andrew Morton writes: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I'm also nervous about the complete lack of locking in vortex_timer(): > > disabling interrupts doesn't mean that transmits couldn't be > > pending. But maybe the hardware is ok with changing status concurrently. > > disable_irq() is very useful in functions such as this. It > would be a shame to have to stop using it.
Doesn't the NCR53C9x SCSI drivers use disable_irq() a lot? Do they have any problems? _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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