Due to a brain malfunction spinlocks were used in pcilynx.c before they were initialized, causing SMP systems to deadlock. The patch fixes this and removes one second/redundant initialization of another lock. diff -ruN linux-2.4.linus/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c linux-2.4/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c --- linux-2.4.linus/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c Mon Feb 26 01:39:30 2001 +++ linux-2.4/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.c Wed Mar 14 01:00:13 2001 @@ -470,8 +470,6 @@ lynx->phy_reg0 = -1; lynx->async.queue = NULL; - spin_lock_init(&lynx->async.queue_lock); - spin_lock_init(&lynx->phy_reg_lock); pcl.next = pcl_bus(lynx, lynx->rcv_pcl); put_pcl(lynx, lynx->rcv_pcl_start, &pcl); @@ -1357,6 +1355,9 @@ lynx->id = num_of_cards-1; lynx->dev = dev; + lynx->lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; + lynx->phy_reg_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; + if (!pci_dma_supported(dev, 0xffffffff)) { FAIL("DMA address limits not supported for PCILynx hardware %d", lynx->id); @@ -1456,8 +1457,6 @@ lynx->iso_rcv.pcl_start = alloc_pcl(lynx); /* all allocations successful - simple init stuff follows */ - - lynx->lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; reg_write(lynx, PCI_INT_ENABLE, PCI_INT_DMA_ALL); -- Andreas E. Bombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSA key 0x04880A44 http://home.pages.de/~andreas.bombe/ http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/