On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:41:23 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
