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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ATM: iphase, remove sleep-inside-atomic
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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:26:57 +0200

> Stanse found that ia_init_one locks a spinlock and inside of that it
> calls ia_start which calls:
> * request_irq
> * tx_init which does kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Both of them can thus sleep and result in a deadlock. I don't see a
> reason to have a per-device spinlock there which is used only there
> and inited right before the lock location. So remove it completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>

Applied.