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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [patch] ipv4: initialize arp_tbl rw lock
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 10:15:33 +0200

> From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> 
> The qeth driver makes use of the arp_tbl rw lock. CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
> detects that this lock is not initialized as it is supposed to be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>

As Stephen Hemminger pointed out this change is bogus, the
lock is initialized at run time by the ARP layer.