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macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls
authorHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:59:06 +0000 (15:59 +0100)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:30:48 +0000 (15:30 -0500)
Remove spin_lock_irqsave() around mii_ethtool_gset, mii_ethtool_sset
and generic_mii_ioctl. These are unnecessary and harmful because
the mii calls may call back into the mdio functions, which may sleep.

Pointed out by David Brownell.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/macb.c patch | blob | history

diff --cc drivers/net/macb.c
Simple merge
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