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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: get rid of dev_base_lock
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:47:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101029134749.GC20832@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288358367.2560.38.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:19:27PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> dev_base_lock was the legacy rwlock used to protect netdevice list, and
> is expected to vanish.
> 
> We now use RTNL and RCU locking.

Is this a .38 patch, or something that needs to be in .37?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29 13:19 [PATCH] staging: get rid of dev_base_lock Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 13:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-10-29 13:49   ` Eric Dumazet

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