Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1

[David S. Miller]

Andrew Morton writes:
 > It'd need to be callable from interrupt context - otherwise
 > each device/driver which has link status change interrupts
 > will need to implement some form of interrupt->process context
 > trick.

Well, we could make the netif_carrier_*() implementation do the
"interrupt->process context" trick.

Jamal can feel free to post what he has.

Later,
David S. Miller
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