From: Ed Cashin Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 00:16:25 +0000 (-0700) Subject: aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions X-Git-Tag: omap-for-v3.7-rc1/fixes-cpufreq-signed~12^2~21 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eb086ec59667df5b07d58176e21a5f523ead1d66;p=pandora-kernel.git aoe: use a kernel thread for transmissions The dev_queue_xmit function needs to have interrupts enabled, so the most simple way to get the locking right but still fulfill that requirement is to use a process that can call dev_queue_xmit serially over queued transmissions. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed