From: Hayes Wang <hayesw...@realtek.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 07:59:35 +0000

> If I use the rtnl_lock(), I get a dead lock when enabling autosuspend.
> 
> Case 1:
>    autosuspend before calling open.
>    rtnl_lock()
>    call open
>    try to autoresume and rtl8152_resume is called.
>    dead lock occurs.
> 
> Case 2:
>    autosuspend occurs.
>    rtnl_lock()
>    call close
>    try to autoresume and rtl8152_resume is called.
>    dead lock occurs.

That's really unfortunate that we can variably get into the resume
handlers from contexts holding the RTNL mutex.

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