Re: Softnet/eepro100 driver conversion bug in 2.3.43pre8?

[Jeff Garzik]

David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> The following patch seems to fix the problem for me.  I think the
> cmpxchg should be #ifdef'd on HAVE_CMPXCHG but in our experience,
> atomicity is important for updating cmd_status, so if you can't do
> this atomically, you're probably hosed anyhow (you'll get lots of Tx
> timeouts, at least).

Can you convert 'status' to atomic_t, and use the atomic_xxx API to
treat it as a truly atomic variable?  When I looked at the code that's
what I thought about doing.

Regards,

	Jeff

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