[PATCH] 8139too deadlock on shutdown

From: Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 05:26:14 EST

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This patch fixes an rtnl dead lock when bringing down an 8139too interface.
The rtnl lock is already held when rtl8139_close is called, so if the
thread is waiting for it at that point in time we have dead lock.

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