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Revision 4d7b6b5d247aa71ea27709b9eac1ba6e752fbe87 authored by Ron Mercer on 11 December 2010, 11:06:50 UTC, committed by David S. Miller on 12 December 2010, 23:02:57 UTC
Removing usage of rtnl_lock() to protect firmware interface registers.
These registers are accessed in some worker threads and can create a
deadlock if rtnl_lock is taken by upper layers while the worker is still
pending.
We remove rtnl_lock and use a driver mutex just while mailboxes are
accessed.

Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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History
Tip revision: 4d7b6b5d247aa71ea27709b9eac1ba6e752fbe87 authored by Ron Mercer on 11 December 2010, 11:06:50 UTC
qlge: Fix deadlock when cancelling worker.
Tip revision: 4d7b6b5
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