Re: [PATCH] net #6

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 03:01:36 EST


> The following patch removes unnecessary #ifdefs from eexpress.c

They are neccessary

> @@ -643,9 +631,7 @@
> eexp_hw_tx_pio(dev,data,length);
> }
> dev_kfree_skb(buf);
> -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lp->lock, flags);
> -#endif
> enable_irq(dev->irq);
> return 0;

They are done this way to get good non SMP performance. Your changes would
ruin that.

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