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3	The locking in the driver is done via the global cli/sti lock. This
4	makes for relatively poor SMP performance. Switching this to use a
5	per device spin lock would probably materially improve performance.
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7	We have reports of occasional failures when run for very long
8	periods of time and the driver starts to receive junk frames. At
9	the moment the cause of this is not clear.
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