macb: Remove inappropriate spinlocks around mii calls
Remove spin_lock_irqsave() around mii_ethtool_gset, mii_ethtool_sset and generic_mii_ioctl. These are unnecessary and harmful because the mii calls may call back into the mdio functions, which may sleep. Pointed out by David Brownell. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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