Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:06:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ipl problem in wi_hostapp.c ? Message-ID: <20020520120106.D535-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> In-Reply-To: <20020520.120614.33489313.imp@village.org>
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On Mon, 20 May 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20020520104220.V495-100000@mammoth.eat.frenchfries.net> > Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> writes: > : Just curious, what is then the reason that splsoftclock() has the > : magical property of clearing all other SWI_* bits? I ask because > : the folowing change to ipl_funcs.c also stopped the panic I was > : experiencing. Machine is still running for now.... :-) > > splsoftclock() isn't supposed to be used in driver code. I see. Well, if it makes it "less broken" before any fixes get MFCed, it might be nice to simply bump the two splsoftclock()s in wi_hostapp.c to splnet() before 4.6-RELEASE. Thanks Warner for the info, and thanks Drew for noticing the problem in the first place. You've got a good eye. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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