Joonwoo Park wrote, On 12/04/2007 10:48 AM:
> Hi,
> dev_set_rx_mode calls __dev_set_rx_mode with softirq disabled (by netif_tx_lock_bh)
> therefore __dev_set_promiscuity can be called with softirq disabled.
> It will cause in_interrupt() to return true and ASSERT_RTNL warning.
> Is there a good solution to fix it besides blowing ASSERT_RTNL up?
Fixing ASSERT_RTNL up?!
But, IMHO, blowing ASSERT_RTNL up in a few places shouldn't be much
worse. After all, how long such a debugging code should be kept. It
seems, at least sometimes we should be a bit more confident of how
it's called.
Regards,
Jarek P.
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