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Commit eb2a021c authored by Francois Romieu's avatar Francois Romieu Committed by Jeff Garzik
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r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock


flush_scheduled_work() in net_device->close has a slight tendency
to deadlock with tasks on the workqueue that hold RTNL.

rtl8169_close/down simply need the recovery tasks to not meddle
with the hardware while the device is going down.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrancois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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