> The bit doesn't quite work the same as the original SWSM lock bit.  And we 
> are only trying to solve the problem of "has a driver loaded on either 
> port yet?"  and since probe is not parallelizable, we are guaranteed not 
> to have a race here, or be preempted (to the point another probe could 
> run)

Thanks, that explains a lot!

> > Other than that I'm fine evaluating that patch in our testlab.
> 
> any news on the evaluation?

I think I can do that tomorrow.  The patch at least did apply fine
against my 2.6.29 test kernel.  I'll do some testing with ethtool
then.

 /holger


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