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ibm_newemac: Fix ZMII refcounting bug

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When using ZMII for MDIO only (such as 440GX with RGMII for data and ZMII for
MDIO), the ZMII code would fail to properly refcount, thus triggering a
BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2007-12-05 11:14:27 +11:00 committed by Jeff Garzik
parent 8df4538e21
commit 968530643a
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/net/ibm_newemac/zmii.c
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@ -83,12 +83,14 @@ int __devinit zmii_attach(struct of_device *ofdev, int input, int *mode)
ZMII_DBG(dev, "init(%d, %d)" NL, input, *mode);
if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode))
if (!zmii_valid_mode(*mode)) {
/* Probably an EMAC connected to RGMII,
* but it still may need ZMII for MDIO so
* we don't fail here.
*/
dev->users++;
return 0;
}
mutex_lock(&dev->lock);