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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] PHYLIB: IRQ event workqueue handling fixes
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    > Actually I'm not convinced with this explanation. It seems to me that
    > since there are such serious locking problems (especially with rntl),
    > there could be once more considered a private workqueue. You've
    > written earlier about being a lonely user of this code. But, since
    > Benjamin offered his help with changing to mutexes, which looks like
    > very reasonable idea to me (probably I miss most of the points...),
    > maybe it's very good opportunity to both: make this code better and
    > double the user base! I'm interested in looking for such solution
    > if Benjamin thinks there could be too few problems for him... So,
    > let somebody tell us what could be wrong with this idea?

    My main problem is time :-) But I need to do the change to mutex if I am
    to use phylib for emac. I can't tell when I'll have time to do it tho.

    Ben.

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