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| author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2007-11-20 14:50:46 +1100 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2007-11-23 20:52:09 -0500 |
| commit | 61dbcecef568450de954115180881bf2f68511bc (patch) | |
| tree | 5cd9d0bff1ab065764230f870a1a48bbdb22142d /drivers/net/forcedeth.c | |
| parent | 2ffbb8377c7a0713baf6644e285adc27a5654582 (diff) | |
ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close
It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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