e1000e: remove phy read from inside spinlock

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thanks to tglx, we're finding some interesting reentrancy issues.
this patch removes the phy read from inside a spinlock, paving
the way for removing the spinlock completely.  The phy read was
only feeding a statistic that wasn't used.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Jesse Brandeburg 2008-10-02 16:33:30 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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commit 23033fad5b

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drivers/net/e1000e/ethtool.c

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drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c

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