Re: tulip driver in 2.1.11* - 2.1.21 is broken - new driver

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 09:55:04 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Dietmar Kling wrote:
>
> maybe this problem is system-dependend (alpha but not i386?) because
> I had no "re-entering interupt handler" all the time.

No, I've had various x86 reports of the same problem, although they seem
to be limited to SMP machines.

I don't think it's an SMP issue, though, apart from some obvious things
that should have been fixed some time ago (ie the use of "tbusy" as a lock
which needs to use atomic operations).

The fact that it happens on a (UP, I very much assume) alpha too makes it
sound like a generic driver problem that just happens to trigger more
easily on SMP in x86 land.

Linus

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