Re: spinlock help

[Alan Cox]

> spin_lock_bh() won't block interrupts and we need them blocked to prevent
> more indications.
> spin_lock_irq() could do the trick but it's counterpart spin_unlock_irq()
> enables all interrupts by calling sti(), and this is even worse for us.

Why dont you queue your indications then. The eepro100 driver doesnt end up
with large locked sections so its obviously possible to handle it sanely