On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:26:21 +0200 Martin Zwickel bubbled: > Hi there! > > I don't know if this is the right place, but I hope so. > > I wrote a network-driver years ago for the 2.4er kernel's. > > Now I ported it to the 2.6er kernel but I get some problems because > set_multicast_list is called from an interrupt and my driver want's to > free/allocate some memory. > > Why did the driver work under 2.4, and now stops running on 2.6? > > I had a look at http://lwn.net/Articles/30107/: > Driver porting: Network drivers > > but there was nothing about newly implemented soft-interrupts. > > Thanks, > Martin > Ah, just tested it under 2.4er. It's called from an interrupt too. So I have to workaround the free/alloc. Sorry! Martin -- MyExcuse: Your EMAIL is now being delivered by the USPS. Martin Zwickel Research & Development TechnoTrend AG