On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 02:28:15PM +0200, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > I didn't get any answer within a month, so I decided to ask the very > same thing again :) > > I'm writing network device driver. Device is pure software and do not > need xmit_lock protection from concurrent calls. Is it a way to shot the > lock from hard_start_xmit function in device driver? Look at the software only network drivers in "linux device drivers 2nd edition" (yes, you can download it for free). Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
