The fix is to initialize the spinlock at probe time. Jeff, the patch
below is against 2.4.21-pre5, but I'm assuming you'll integrate it into
2.5 and push it to Linus as well as Marcelo. It applies to both trees.
Jason
--- linux-2.4.21-pre5/drivers/net/eepro100.c Thu Feb 27 14:21:34 2003
+++ linux-eepro100/drivers/net/eepro100.c Fri Mar 7 16:38:17 2003
@@ -842,6 +842,7 @@
sp->lstats = (struct speedo_stats *)(sp->tx_ring + TX_RING_SIZE);
sp->lstats_dma = TX_RING_ELEM_DMA(sp, TX_RING_SIZE);
init_timer(&sp->timer); /* used in ioctl() */
+ spin_lock_init(&sp->lock);
sp->mii_if.full_duplex = option >= 0 && (option & 0x10) ? 1 : 0;
if (card_idx >= 0) {
@@ -993,7 +994,6 @@
sp->dirty_tx = 0;
sp->last_cmd = 0;
sp->tx_full = 0;
- spin_lock_init(&sp->lock);
sp->in_interrupt = 0;
/* .. we can safely take handler calls during init. */
-
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