Re: patch tulip-natsemi-dp83840a-phy-fix.patch added to -mm tree

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simply ensure that tulip_select_media() is always called from a process 
context. Then can you delay all you want.  Several of the calls are 
already this way, so that leaves two cases:

1) called from timer context, from the media poll timer

2) called from spin_lock_irqsave() context, in the ->tx_timeout hook.

The first case can be fixed by moved all the timer code to a workqueue. 
 Then when the existing timer fires, kick the workqueue.

The second case can be fixed by kicking the workqueue upon tx_timeout 
(which is the reason why I did not suggest queue_delayed_work() use).

See, it's not rocket science :)

        Jeff