RE: [patch] e100 schedule while atomic

Feldman, Scott (scott.feldman@intel.com)
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:48:03 -0700


Arnd wrote:

> Running e100 on linux-2.5.39 showed that the driver
> incorrectly holds a lock while calling request_irq(), which
> does kmalloc().
>
> This patch appears to solve the problem. Not sure if it is
> correct, but something like it has to be done.

Thanks for pointing this out. I don't think the lock needs to be held at
all in e100_open, so we'll look into cleaning that up. Regardless, we'll
included a fix for this problem in our next set of patches to Jeff.

-scott
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