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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
       Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Subject: Re: question on context of kfree_skb()
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:57:06 +0100
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Am Montag, 30. Dezember 2002 23:32 schrieb Manfred Spraul:
> Mulix wrote:
> >dev_kfree_skb_any() should be called when you could be either
> >executing in interrupt context or not.
>
> dev_kfree_skb_any() can misdetect the context: You must not use the
> function if you hold an irq spinlock and you might be running from BH or
> process context.

What then shall be used under these circumstances ?
Could you perhaps summarise the issue ?

	Regards
		Oliver

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