Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> writes: > I agree that patches to get rid of spl locking in drivers should not > be rejected. But if a driver is made SMP-safe just to "fix" a bug, > then it's not the right thing to do because the bug is still there. No argument on this from me. There's pretty clearly something off in the grand scheme of how splnet/kernel_lock is supposed to protect bnx_start, and we definitely need to get to the bottom of it.
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