On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:05:26PM -0500, Amit Kucheria spoke out thus: > Is it guaranteed by the higher layers that dev->hard_start_xmit is > non-reentrant? Well, hard_start_smit is generally called after disabling BH processing. So it is not likely to be interrupted by any software interrupt, in any case. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya Mindframe Software Work: sandip @ mindsw.com, http://www.mindsw.com Play: sandipb @ bigfoot.com, http://www.sandipb.net ----------------------------------------------- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/