Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] can: add driver for Softing card
From: Kurt Van Dijck <hidden>
Date: 2011-01-03 16:28:26
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 03:25:07PM +0100, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
Another option is to write a threaded interrupt handler.
It seems a threaded irq is the way to go. During the implementation, a locking issue came up. Am I right that within a threaded irq handler, I should use spin_lock_bh() to prevent the ndo_start_xmit() to be called (ie. prevent the softirq).
Kurt