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Re: dev->hard_start_xmit non-reentrant?

On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 04:05:26PM -0500, Amit Kucheria spoke out thus:
> Is it guaranteed by the higher layers that dev->hard_start_xmit is 
> non-reentrant?

Well, hard_start_smit is generally called after disabling BH
processing. So it is not likely to be interrupted by any software
interrupt, in any case. 

- Sandip

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