[ofa-general] [PATCH v2] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Sun Aug 17 03:45:22 PDT 2008


On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 03:19:53PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> @@ -1314,7 +1308,7 @@ sysfs_failed:
>  
>  register_failed:
>  	ib_unregister_event_handler(&priv->event_handler);
> -	flush_scheduled_work();
> +	flush_workqueue(ipoib_workqueue);
>  

I don't find any flaw in this approach, but I don't understand why is
the flush_workqueue(ipoib_workqueue) above needed.



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