Re: cli() / sti()

A.N.Kuznetsov (kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:11:16 +0400

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In article <97Jun19.094537-0400_edt.973526-311+1603@vger.rutgers.edu> you wrote:
: I'm in the middle of hacking the eql driver and I've found a bunch of
: cti()/sti() pairs. What should I do with them?

In ioctl part start_bh_atomic/end_bh_atomic is good replacement.
In transmitter just delete them. hard_start_xmit's are serialized
by top layer at the moment.

Alexey Kuznetsov.

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