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SubjectRe: net_device: set_multicast_list called from interrupt?
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:26:21 +0200
Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> bubbled:

> Hi there!
>
> I don't know if this is the right place, but I hope so.
>
> I wrote a network-driver years ago for the 2.4er kernel's.
>
> Now I ported it to the 2.6er kernel but I get some problems because
> set_multicast_list is called from an interrupt and my driver want's to
> free/allocate some memory.
>
> Why did the driver work under 2.4, and now stops running on 2.6?
>
> I had a look at http://lwn.net/Articles/30107/:
> Driver porting: Network drivers
>
> but there was nothing about newly implemented soft-interrupts.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>

Ah, just tested it under 2.4er. It's called from an interrupt too.
So I have to workaround the free/alloc.

Sorry!

Martin

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Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de>
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