From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:32:21 -0700
> If sky2 device poll routine is called from netpoll_send_skb, it > would deadlock. The netpoll_send_skb held the netif_tx_lock, and the > poll routine could acquire it to clean up skb's. Other drivers > might use same locking model. > > The driver is correct, netpoll should not introduce more locking problems > than it causes already. So change the code to drop lock before calling > poll handler. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch applied, thanks Stephen. Once I get this to Linus would you like me to toss it over to the -stable folks too? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
