Re: how do we block interrupts?

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Sureshkumar Kamalanathan wrote:

> Hi all,
>   I have added a function inside kernel in netif_rx().  I want to block
> all the ethernet interrupts till this function is executed.  
>   How do we block and unblock the interrupts?
>   Thanks in advance,
> 
> Regards,
> Sureshkumar K.

Like line 1002 of ../linux/net/core/dev.c

spin_lock_irqsave(&netdev_fc_lock, flags);
	blocked_code();
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&netdev_fc_lock, flags);

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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