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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-05 23:08:07 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-07-05 23:08:07 -0700
commitea2aca084ba82aaf7c148d04914ceed8758ce08a (patch)
treedcb3f4f849cf48deac2dd3bafd5c2cd2f0e7dc79 /drivers/net/forcedeth.c
parentMerge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 (diff)
parentfs_enet: restore promiscuous and multicast settings in restart() (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/forcedeth.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/forcedeth.c15
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
index afd063fe11af..786d668c612e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c
@@ -4198,12 +4198,23 @@ static int nv_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *ecmd)
netif_carrier_off(dev);
if (netif_running(dev)) {
+ unsigned long flags;
+
nv_disable_irq(dev);
netif_tx_lock_bh(dev);
- spin_lock(&np->lock);
+ /* with plain spinlock lockdep complains */
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&np->lock, flags);
/* stop engines */
+ /* FIXME:
+ * this can take some time, and interrupts are disabled
+ * due to spin_lock_irqsave, but let's hope no daemon
+ * is going to change the settings very often...
+ * Worst case:
+ * NV_RXSTOP_DELAY1MAX + NV_TXSTOP_DELAY1MAX
+ * + some minor delays, which is up to a second approximately
+ */
nv_stop_rxtx(dev);
- spin_unlock(&np->lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&np->lock, flags);
netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev);
}