e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 2 Oct 2008 23:33:40 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:28:13 +0000 (18:28 -0700)
commit717d438d1fde94decef874b9808379d1f4523453
treea0c2d71c2219e111668870f2692a92e3065d34fd
parent4fa7553a075918e1e02a6039f9e826c8872b7049
e1000e: debug contention on NVM SWFLAG

This patch adds a mutex to the e1000e driver that would help
catch any collisions of two e1000e threads accessing hardware
at the same time.

description and patch updated by Jesse

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/net/e1000e/ich8lan.c