[PATCH] lockdep: annotate hostap netdev ->xmit_lock

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:45 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> Okay, I rebuilt my kernel with your combo patch applied.
> Then, I inserted my US Robotics USR2210 PCMCIA wifi card,
> ran "pccardutil eject", popped out the card and then inserted
> a Compaq iPaq wifi card.  This triggered the following.
>
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> syslogd/1886 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a50b5>] dev_queue_xmit+0x120/0x24b
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a5118>] dev_queue_xmit+0x183/0x24b
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

ok this appears to be hostap playing games... it has 2 network devices
for one piece of hardware and one calls the other via the networking
layer; there is thankfully a natural ordering between the two, so just
making the slave one a separate type ought to make this work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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