Re: [PATCH] sky2: recovery deadlock fix

2007-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Prevent deadlock in sky2 recovery logic. sky2_down calls napi_synchronize which gets stuck if napi was already disabled. Fix by rearranging slightly and not calling napi_disable until after both ports are stopped. The napi_disable probably is being overly paranoid, but

[PATCH] sky2: recovery deadlock fix

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Prevent deadlock in sky2 recovery logic. sky2_down calls napi_synchronize which gets stuck if napi was already disabled. Fix by rearranging slightly and not calling napi_disable until after both ports are stopped. The napi_disable probably is being overly paranoid, but it is safe now. Signed-off