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 ? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
