[click] device locks

[Douglas S. J. De Couto]

what if you use devices and drivers that aren't patched by click -- is 
this a problem pre-linux-2.4?

On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 12:51 US/Eastern, Eddie Kohler wrote:

> In Linux 2.4, we use the spinlock "struct netdevice.xmit_lock" to
> synchronize transmissions between Click and Linux. This means that we 
> can
> probably take out the per-driver locks that we added to the device 
> drivers
> themselves. Or should we use "xmit_lock" only in interrupting mode?
>
> E
>
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Douglas S. J. De Couto     <decouto at lcs.mit.edu>