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SubjectRe: 2.1.131-ac3 3c509 no irq_save in the sender code
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> I don' t understand very well the meaning of `tx is single threaded
> implicitly'...

All transmits are serialized by the dev_queue_xmit() area code. There
is a start_bh_atomic around them. Thats something that has to go for
2.3.x but for 2.2 is quite safe


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