[PATCH] ibm_newemac: Fix possible lockup on close

[Jeff Garzik]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> It's a bad idea to call flush_scheduled_work from within a
> netdev->stop because the linkwatch will occasionally take the
> rtnl lock from a workqueue context, and thus that can deadlock.
> 
> This reworks things a bit in that area to avoid the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
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> 

applied #upstream-fixes (2.6.24-rc)