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SubjectRe: cli() / sti()
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In article <19970620140953.31957.qmail@bigred.inka.de>,
Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de> wrote:
>> In ioctl part start_bh_atomic/end_bh_atomic is good replacement.
>> In transmitter just delete them. hard_start_xmit's are serialized
>> by top layer at the moment.
>
>"At the moment" == 2.0 or 2.1?

"At the moment" means every kernel since something like 1.1.x or some
such ancient thing. And it probably means "until the end of time" (the
serialization right now is a global serialization of all devices, and it
_may_ become a per-device serialization in the future, but as a driver
writer you should more-or-less be able to depend on one particular
driver start_xmit() entrypoint always being serialized).

Linus

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