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Re: [PATCH] net: fix NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08

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On Thursday 01 October 2009 20:42:28 Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 16:04 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:33:33 David Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not applying this until all of these details are sorted out 
> > 
> > John, please apply my fix to wireless-testing to get rid of the regression.
> > You can revert it later, if there's a better fix available.
> 
> I agree with davem, don't. Just fix the driver to local_bh_disable()
> around the rx function if necessary.

For the benefit of a much bigger critical section? I don't get it why this would be any better.

I _am_ going to do one thing now, however. That is ignoring any regression bugreport.
(Yes, it _is_ a regression for b43)

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Greetings, Michael.
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