Commit efbd8098 authored by Zhu Yi's avatar Zhu Yi Committed by John W. Linville

[PATCH] ipw2100: Fix deadlock detected by lockdep

Fix by removing dependency between priv->action_sem and rtnl semaphore.
Signed-off-by: default avatarZhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent c8c22c94
......@@ -6254,13 +6254,14 @@ static int ipw2100_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
* member to call a function that then just turns and calls ipw2100_up.
* net_dev->init is called after name allocation but before the
* notifier chain is called */
mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME
"Error calling register_netdev.\n");
goto fail_unlock;
goto fail;
}
mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
registered = 1;
IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Bound to %s\n", dev->name, pci_name(pci_dev));
......
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