On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 07:50:52AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> However, in this case it's much easier than that. Simply change
> rtl8139_thread to do
>
> rtnl_lock();
> if (tp->time_to_die == 0) {
> rtl8139_thread_iter(dev, tp, tp->mmio_addr);
> schedule_delayed_work(&tp->thread, next_tick);
> }
> rtnl_unlock();
Actually this is no good either. The reason is that rtl8139_stop_thread
never relinquinshes the RTNL so it has no way of waiting for this to
complete.
So I suppose we will have to use cancel_rearming_delayed_workqueue or
create an rtl-specific semaphore for this.
Cheers,
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