[PATCH] Defer tulip_select_media() to process context

Move tulip_select_media() processing to a workqueue, instead of
delaying in interrupt context, edited by Kyle McMartin to use kevent
thread, instead of creating its own workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Valerie Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/tulip/timer.c b/drivers/net/tulip/timer.c
index f75bc5ecd73c..066e5d6bcbd8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tulip/timer.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tulip/timer.c
@@ -18,13 +18,14 @@
 #include "tulip.h"
 
 
-void tulip_timer(unsigned long data)
+void tulip_media_task(void *data)
 {
-        struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)data;
+        struct net_device *dev = data;
         struct tulip_private *tp = netdev_priv(dev);
         void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->base_addr;
         u32 csr12 = ioread32(ioaddr + CSR12);
         int next_tick = 2*HZ;
+        unsigned long flags;
 
         if (tulip_debug > 2) {
                 printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: Media selection tick, %s, status %8.8x mode"
@@ -126,6 +127,15 @@ void tulip_timer(unsigned long data)
         }
         break;
         }
+
+
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&tp->lock, flags);
+        if (tp->timeout_recovery) {
+                tulip_tx_timeout_complete(tp, ioaddr);
+                tp->timeout_recovery = 0;
+        }
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tp->lock, flags);
+
         /* mod_timer synchronizes us with potential add_timer calls
          * from interrupts.
          */