Is there anyone using ARCnet with RFC1051 or Ethernet encapsulation in recent
2.1 kernels? If so, please let me know.
I've received a report that it hangs indefinitely when the device is brought
up. The arcnet_open routine calls register_netdev to register the extra
devices for the other encapsulations, and my current suspicion is that
someone's introduced a lock on the device structure, and that lock is already
held when the device open routine is called, hence a deadlock.
Advice on how to get round this, and offers of arcnet hardware so that I can
at least have a go at fixing it, would be appreciated.
Would using register_netdevice() instead of register_netdev() be useful?
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