Re: [PATCH v3] staging: r8188eu: Use kzalloc() with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic context

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Oh yeah, you're right.  It never *just* does spinlocks (as stated in the
commit message btw), it does spin_lock_bh() which bumps the soft IRQ
count.

> To summarize, I think that using in_interrupt() in the old wrappers was the 
> wiser choice.

"Wiser" is not the right word.  The wrappers were always stupid, but I
guess they did work in this case so the fixes tag is correct.

regards,
dan carpenter





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