From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:37:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~51^2~8
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r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock

flush_scheduled_work() in net_device->close has a slight tendency
to deadlock with tasks on the workqueue that hold RTNL.

rtl8169_close/down simply need the recovery tasks to not meddle
with the hardware while the device is going down.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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