Re: 2.2.14pre17 hangup with SMP during ifconfig

[Alan Cox]

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >The driver is holding a private lock in a deadlock loop with the irq
> >lock it seems. So using nosync is fine as the irq handler takes the lock
> 
> So they are holding the private spinlock before disabling interrupts.
> That's the real bug.

But explain how to fix that in three lines in email without the driver source
handy 8)