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 sa
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 problem
