On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:56:51AM +0000, Steven J. Hill wrote: > Get rid of global PHY spinlock.
You have replaced the use of the global PHY spinlock with a per-port spinlock. However, the SMI register is shared by all ports. The global lock is needed to prevent simultaneous updates of the register by drivers for multiple ports. NAK -Dale - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html