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Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>
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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: ipl problem in wi_hostapp.c ? 
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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.


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