[PATCH / RFC] net: fix locking in ibm_newemac

[Sebastian Siewior]

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt | 2008-08-14 13:45:54 [+1000]:

>> The fix is to defer phy init until netdevice is registered / initialized.
>
>I think it's better instead to take the dev_mc_add() statement
>out of emac_configure().
I looked yesterday into that code and I saw that dev_mc_add() was called
by the network core itself. Now I'm sure it was definitly too late for
writing patches :)

>What about this patch instead, does it fix it for you ?
yep it does.

Sebastian