Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5] fixes for airo.c | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 23 Jul 2003 19:03:24 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2003-07-23 at 18:56, Daniel Ritz wrote: > > You cannot use down() in xmit, as it may be called in interrupt context. I > > know it slows things down, but that's the only way I figured out of > > handling a transmission while the card is processing a long command. > > hu? no. you can do a down() as xmit is never called from interrupt context. and > the dev->hard_start_xmit() calls are serialized with the dev->xmit_lock. the > serialization is broken by the schedule_work() thing.
If you are about to start a long command why not mark the device busy for transmit before starting ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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