Subject: Re: Changes to firewire code
To: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/29/2001 11:47:24
jchacon@genuity.net wrote:
> 2. Move everything to splbio and let the underlying devices raise spl as
> appropriate for their specific function (i.e. the if_fw code needs to raise
> splnet when moving packets around).
Should the processing be at splsoftSomething so you know that it's
lower than anything else? Otherwise the code won't interact properly
with code that wants to process interrupts at a levelloer than splbio.
(I had exactly this problem in the USB code.)
-- Lennart