Re: [PATCH 1/2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe
From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Date: 2009-03-30 06:24:35
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Am Montag 30 März 2009 01:32:34 schrieb Larry Finger:
On an SMP system, the following message is printed. The patch below gets fixes the problem.
Thanks for this report and the patch. I think, however that it introduces unneeded locking. It seems to me that we should be fine if we fix kaweth_start_xmit(). That code assumes that it is called with interrupts off and under a spinlock. Is that incorrect? Regards Oliver