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
next prev 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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