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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] drivers/net: Fix synchronize_irq() bugs, redundancies
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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 19:35 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> free_irq() calls synchronize_irq() for you, so there is no need for
> drivers to manually do the same thing (again). Thus, calls where
> sync-irq immediately precedes free-irq can be simplified.

> diff --git a/drivers/net/typhoon.c b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
> index 333961b..7d2a4c6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/typhoon.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/typhoon.c
[...]
> /* Make sure there is no irq handler running on a different CPU. */
> - typhoon_synchronize_irq(dev->irq);
> free_irq(dev->irq, dev);

Should probably kill the comment as well, since it was referring to the
synchronize_irq() call.

Acked-by: Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>



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