[PATCH RFC] gianfar: Make polling safe with IRQs disabled
Jon Loeliger
jdl at jdl.com
Fri Nov 6 01:41:06 EST 2009
>
> Hm, then I'd better remove the #ifdef CONFIG_NETPOLL.
>
> Interestingly though, why conn_track does the polling with irqs
> disabled, could be a bug in the conn_track? Because pretty much
> drivers assume that polling is called with IRQs enabled.
>
> If it's easily reproducible, could you replace the printk() with
> WARN_ON(1) and post the backtrace? Or I can try to reproduce the
> issue if you tell me how.
>
> Thanks!
Yeah, I can reproduce it. I'll try and get that for you.
jdl
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