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.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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applied #upstream-fixes (2.6.24-rc)

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