From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:59:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~74^2~13
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=140e807dd7d6aa68e601f50a10abd5351e06126f;p=pandora-kernel.git

macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls

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>
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