Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert sbmac tx to spin_lock_irqsave to prevent early IRQ enable

From: Ralf Baechle <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:18:39 +0200

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 07:40:51AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:25:37AM +0800, Weiwei Wang wrote:
> > Netpoll will call the interrupt handler with interrupts
> > disabled when using kgdboe, so spin_lock_irqsave() should
> > be used instead of spin_lock_irq() to prevent interrupts
> > from being incorrectly enabled.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Weiwei Wang <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c |   12 +++++++-----
> >  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Please send to [email-masked] or [email-masked].

Jeff - I haven't looked at kgdboe but if he's right half of drivers/net
will need to be fixed ...

  Ralf