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Hi,
I am trying to walk through some device driver and port my own kind of base=
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on that. I see that almost all the device drivers are blocking hard net
interrupts using splnet in ioctls (e.g.. sf_ioctl in aic6915.c). Why do
ioctls need to block hard net interrupts and just not soft net interrupts..=

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