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authorHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>2007-02-16 15:59:06 +0100
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>2007-02-17 21:30:48 +0100
commit140e807dd7d6aa68e601f50a10abd5351e06126f (patch)
tree4481f795dffd8db8fe1723200614018d06ac2815 /drivers/net/macb.c
parentConvert meth to netdev_priv (diff)
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macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls
Remove spin_lock_irqsave() around mii_ethtool_gset, mii_ethtool_sset and generic_mii_ioctl. These are unnecessary and harmful because the mii calls may call back into the mdio functions, which may sleep. Pointed out by David Brownell. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/macb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/macb.c24
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
index a41418b3c518..2e9571bf0736 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macb.c
@@ -881,27 +881,15 @@ static struct net_device_stats *macb_get_stats(struct net_device *dev)
static int macb_get_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
- int ret;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
- ret = mii_ethtool_gset(&bp->mii, cmd);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
- return ret;
+ return mii_ethtool_gset(&bp->mii, cmd);
}
static int macb_set_settings(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_cmd *cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
- int ret;
- unsigned long flags;
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
- ret = mii_ethtool_sset(&bp->mii, cmd);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
- return ret;
+ return mii_ethtool_sset(&bp->mii, cmd);
}
static void macb_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *dev, struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
@@ -930,17 +918,11 @@ static struct ethtool_ops macb_ethtool_ops = {
static int macb_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
{
struct macb *bp = netdev_priv(dev);
- int ret;
- unsigned long flags;
if (!netif_running(dev))
return -EINVAL;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&bp->lock, flags);
- ret = generic_mii_ioctl(&bp->mii, if_mii(rq), cmd, NULL);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bp->lock, flags);
-
- return ret;
+ return generic_mii_ioctl(&bp->mii, if_mii(rq), cmd, NULL);
}
static ssize_t macb_mii_show(const struct device *_dev, char *buf,