[PATCH] initialize a spin lock in gianfar driver

Kumar Gala galak at freescale.com
Sat Mar 5 16:12:59 EST 2005


Initialize the mdio_lock spin lock in mii_info struct, which is otherwise 
accessed prior to initialization.

Signed-off-by: Jaka Mocnik <jaka at activetools.si>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala at freescale.com>

---

diff -Nru a/drivers/net/gianfar.c b/drivers/net/gianfar.c
--- a/drivers/net/gianfar.c	2005-03-04 23:03:27 -06:00
+++ b/drivers/net/gianfar.c	2005-03-04 23:03:27 -06:00
@@ -377,6 +377,8 @@
 			ADVERTISED_1000baseT_Full);
 	mii_info->autoneg = 1;
 
+	spin_lock_init(&mii_info->mdio_lock);
+
 	mii_info->mii_id = priv->einfo->phyid;
 
 	mii_info->dev = dev;



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