netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/7] vxge: hotplug stall

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Message-Id: <20101210.160915.90793925.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:09:15 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jon.mason@...r.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sivakumar.subramani@...r.com,
	sreenivasa.honnur@...r.com, ram.vepa@...r.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] vxge: hotplug stall

From: Jon Mason <jon.mason@...r.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:03:00 -0600

> When hot-unplugging a vxge adapter while running, the driver's remove
> routine prints warning and then stalls the calling thread.  This is due
> to vxge_remove calling vxge_device_unregister to unregister the netdev
> before calling flush_scheduled_work clear any pending work.  Swapping
> the order of these two functions resolves the issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@...r.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@...r.com>

Applied.
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