From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:18:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40340EE2.1010305@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040218171159.62e76670.davem@redhat.com>
David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:11:47 +0100
> Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de> wrote:
>
>
>>the attached patch updates the linkwatch code so that it backs off and retries
>>whenever it cannot get the rtnl semaphore.
>
>
> I think we should fix locking conflicts created by things like what
> the sungem driver is doing instead.
Agreed.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-19 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-15 14:11 Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders Stefan Rompf
2004-02-19 1:11 ` David S. Miller
2004-02-19 1:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-02-20 16:44 ` Stefan Rompf
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