Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw: Support for multicast addresses

From: Daniel Drake <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:57:10 -0500

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Why all the trouble do it off work queue? Is someone calling
> set_multicast_list with IRQ's disabled?

Register I/O involves sleeping, so we need to be in process context.

in_atomic() returns non-zero in the set_multicast_list handler. I 
couldn't tell you which codepath this is in.

Daniel