From: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:59:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~74^2~13
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=140e807dd7d6aa68e601f50a10abd5351e06126f;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

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>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
index a41418b3c51..2e9571bf073 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,