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Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:43:50 -0600 From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:41:23 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote: > 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? It's being kept around until arch/ppc dies. Then things should get renamed. josh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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