From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:20:29 -0700

> David, So do we want to fix this issue as proposed by Herbert to replace
> tx_lock with xmit_lock? It seems quite straightforward to do. For this
> change to work, netpoll also needs to be fixed up a bit to check for
> LLTX before getting the xmit_lock.

Oh yes, netpoll needs changes, thanks for noticing that.

That's why I had the idea to make xmit_lock a pointer, so
that things like that netpoll case could be transparent.

I think this netpoll wrinkle means we also have to make
sure to set the xmit_lock_owner across the board.
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