On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:06:39PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > 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.
So from the name of the driver you want to keep the previous emac driver around. Is there a good reason for that? - 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