On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:42 -0700, Shaw Vrana wrote:

> I'll bite!  Here's a patch to add a call to flush_scheduled_work() in 
> e1000_down.  It's against 2.6.16.9.
> 
You're not following our discussion. It is not safe to call
flush_scheduled_work() in a driver's close() because it is holding the
rtnl and can deadlock with linkwatch_event() if it happens to be on the
workqueue.

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