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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] use rtnl_lock_interruptible in 8139 to avoid
 shutdown hang
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:37:14 -0800
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:16:30 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:

> The 8139too thread needs to use rtnl_lock_interruptible so it can avoid
> doing the actual work once it's been kill_proc()ed on module removal
> time.
> 
> Based on debugging and an earlier patch that adds a driver-private
> semaphore from Herbert Xu.

I've applied these two patches, they look perfectly fine.
Thanks Christoph.