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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:47:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41917330.6090002@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041110013941.GL31969@postel.suug.ch>

Thomas Graf wrote:

>* Patrick McHardy <41916F0B.5010809@trash.net> 2004-11-10 02:29
>  
>
>>Assuming all error-paths do proper cleanup, returning -EAGAIN
>>should always result in the same configuration state as before.
>>    
>>
>
>I agree but this assumption is wrong, at least for u32.
>
It will be true soon :) Anything else is a bug, and a nice
side-effect of this change is that all those dusty error-paths
actually get used.

>I agree
>that once this is true it would work perfectly fine, however I 
>think it would be inefficient to parse the whole TLV tree multiple
>times.
>  
>
It will only happen once for every module, so I don't think
it's a big deal.

Regards
Patrick

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-10  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-04  3:11 request_module while holding rtnl semaphore Patrick McHardy
2004-11-05 23:35 ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10  0:11   ` David S. Miller
2004-11-10  0:38     ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:01     ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:10       ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:22         ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:29           ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:39             ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:41               ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10 11:32                 ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10 11:42                   ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10 11:56                     ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:47               ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2004-12-12 17:57                 ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-12 18:04                   ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 16:53                     ` [RFC] tcf_bind_filter failure handling Thomas Graf
2004-12-13 18:11                       ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 18:52                         ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-13 19:12                           ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 19:23                           ` jamal
2004-12-13 19:32                             ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:15     ` request_module while holding rtnl semaphore Herbert Xu
2005-01-11  3:04     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-11  9:47       ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 21:05         ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-11 21:47           ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 21:50             ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 22:18               ` Patrick McHardy

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