Hi all!

While debugging spinlocks I came across a message from the kernel 
indicating a problem in the AU1x00 ethernet driver. Seems like the 
spinlock for the 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-Rev504 kernel, and as far as I checked should also be 
applicable to the current head (line numbers differ).
Comments welcome; I'm quite new to kernel hacking :-)

Martin

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