Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:12:16 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: BUG: double spinlock in "drivers/net/3c505.c" | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:26:45 +0200
> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:17 +0400, Alexander Strakh wrote: >> KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.35-rc1 >> SUBJECT: duble spinlock in function elp_start_xmit > > Not only in elp_start_xmit. This driver is for a pretty old and slow isa > ethernet card and I think nobody cares. To quote a comment from the > source: "[...] the concurrency protection is particularly awful".
Indeed, I spent some time trying to unravel the locking mess for these call chains to check_3c505_dma() and it was just too much to sanely cure.
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