Re: [PATCH] kill 8139too kernel thread (sorta)

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

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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