Prevent deadlock in sky2 recovery logic. sky2_down calls napi_synchronize which gets stuck if napi was already disabled.
Fix by rearranging slightly and not calling napi_disable until after both ports are stopped. The napi_disable probably is being overly paranoid, but it is safe now. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please apply for 2.6.24 (upstream-fixes) --- a/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-11-30 16:51:50.000000000 -0800 +++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c 2007-11-30 16:54:52.000000000 -0800 @@ -2906,16 +2906,14 @@ static void sky2_restart(struct work_str int i, err; rtnl_lock(); - sky2_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, 0); - sky2_read32(hw, B0_IMSK); - napi_disable(&hw->napi); - for (i = 0; i < hw->ports; i++) { dev = hw->dev[i]; if (netif_running(dev)) sky2_down(dev); } + napi_disable(&hw->napi); + sky2_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, 0); sky2_reset(hw); sky2_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, Y2_IS_BASE); napi_enable(&hw->napi); -- 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