Re: [Fwd: [PATCH] Spinlock initialisation au1000_eth.c]

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Martin Gebert wrote:
> Seems like the spinlock for the AU1x00 ethernet device is initialised too
> late, as it is already used in enable_mac(), which is called via
> mii_probe() before the init takes place.
> The attached patch is working here for a Linux Au1100 2.6.22.6 kernel,
> and as far as I checked should also be applicable to the current head
> (just line numbers differ).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Gebert <Martin.Gebert@alpha-bit.de>
> 
> --- drivers/net/au1000_eth.c    2008-06-26 14:21:53.000000000 +0200
> +++ drivers/net/au1000_eth.c    2008-06-26 14:23:00.000000000 +0200
> @@ -656,6 +656,7 @@
>         dev->name, base, irq);
> 
>     aup = dev->priv;
> +    spin_lock_init(&aup->lock);
> 
>     /* Allocate the data buffers */
>     /* Snooping works fine with eth on all au1xxx */
> @@ -766,7 +767,6 @@
>         aup->tx_db_inuse[i] = pDB;
>     }
> 
> -    spin_lock_init(&aup->lock);
>     dev->base_addr = base;
>     dev->irq = irq;

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