2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Matthew Wilcox commit f382a0a8e9403c6d7f8b2cfa21e41fefb5d0c9bd upstream Lockdep warns about the mdio_lock taken with interrupts enabled then later taken from interrupt context. Initially, I considered changing these to spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq, but then I looked at atl1e_phy_init() and saw that it calls msleep(). Sleeping while holding a spinlock is not allowed either. In the probe path, we haven't registered the interrupt handler, so it can't poke at this card yet. It's before we call register_netdev(), so I don't think any other threads can reach this card either. If I'm right, we don't need a spinlock at all. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jay Cliburn Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c @@ -2390,9 +2390,7 @@ static int __devinit atl1e_probe(struct } /* Init GPHY as early as possible due to power saving issue */ - spin_lock(&adapter->mdio_lock); atl1e_phy_init(&adapter->hw); - spin_unlock(&adapter->mdio_lock); /* reset the controller to * put the device in a known good starting state */ err = atl1e_reset_hw(&adapter->hw); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/