>On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 13:04, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Okay, what I'm getting here is that the UP case already has preempt
>> disabled b/c the locks are taken in IRQ context?
>
>The tx/timeout path isnt always in IRQ context.
>
It is.
tx and timeout are both called at BH context with the dev_xmit spinlock
held. See Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
What about
disable_irq();
spin_lock(&np->lock);
That's what 8390.c uses, no need for an #ifdef.
--
Manfred
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