Richard Procter and I worked to remove cli/sti to add proper SMP support (I did the original stuff and Richard did the actual current code :)).

    Besides that, Richard did a great jog improving the perfomance of the driver quite a bit:

    - Improve mc32_command by 770% (438% non-inlined) over the semaphore version (at a cost of 1 sem + 2 completions per driver).

    - Removed mutex covering mc32_send_packet (hard_start_xmit). This lets the interrupt handler operate concurrently and removes unnecessary locking. It makes the code only slightly more brittle

    Original post:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=106438449315202&w=2

    Since it didn't apply cleanly against 2.6.0-test6, I forward ported it. Patch attached.

    Jeff, please consider applying,

    Thanks.

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Spotted by Matteo Croce 

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From Martin Diehl.

From Martin Diehl.

Also, make sir-dev locking compatible with irport.
From Martin Diehl.

[ATM]: br2684 incorrectly handles frames recvd with FCS (by Alex Zeffertt <ajz@cambridgebroadband.com>)

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We must not mark the process TASK_STOPPED early, because
that might allow a signal to wake it up before we actually
got to the "wake_up_forked_process()" state. Total confusion
would happen.

Make wake_up_forked_process() verify the new world order.

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