From: Jarek Poplawski <redacted>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 08:15:01 +0000

Maybe right, but Mike's patch changelog above writes:
"Proposed fix for "sky2 panic under load" reported by Berck E. Nash.",
and maybe I missed something, but I can't find any report which
acknowledges this patch fixed this or down/suspending problem.

Certainly by my reading Mike's patch does in fact fix a race
between device detach and the TX handler, so regardless of
whether it fixes actual reported user problems it should
at a minimum go into net-next-2.6

And that's _exactly_ what I did, and how I analyzed his work.