On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 04:46:31PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 16:39 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > > Strange. Then what are the two separate functions netif_rx() and > > netif_rx_ni() for? > > netif_rx_ni() disables preemption. You wrote earlier: > [...] the networking layer needs to have > packets handed to it with softirqs disabled. How disabling preemption can fix something which needs softirqs disabled? Could you be more precise? > > > This really should be obvious. You're fixing the warning at the source > > > of the warning, rather than the source of the problem. > > > > Good idea. So please do tell us where the source of the problem is. > > You use netif_rx_ni() instead of netif_rx() at whatever place that > causes this problem. This isn't a very precise description either. Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
