From 0db3dc73f7a3a73b0dc725b6a991253f5652c905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:39:42 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [NETPOLL]: tx lock deadlock fix If sky2 device poll routine is called from netpoll_send_skb, it would deadlock. The netpoll_send_skb held the netif_tx_lock, and the poll routine could acquire it to clean up skb's. Other drivers might use same locking model. The driver is correct, netpoll should not introduce more locking problems than it causes already. So change the code to drop lock before calling poll handler. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed