From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>,
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:49:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adairgpc39m.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061205135753.9c3844f8.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 5 Dec 2006 13:57:53 -0800")
> But running flush_scheduled_work() from within dev_close() is a very
> sensible thing to do, and dev_close is called under rtnl_lock().
I can't argue with that -- this has actually bitten me in the past.
Hmm, I'll try to understand why we need rtnl_lock() to cover dev_close...
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-05 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-03 5:50 [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy Ben Collins
2006-12-03 9:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-04 19:17 ` Steve Fox
2006-12-05 18:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 17:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-05 19:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 18:57 ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-06 12:31 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-05 20:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 20:59 ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-05 21:26 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 21:37 ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-05 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-05 23:49 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2006-12-05 23:52 ` Roland Dreier
2006-12-06 15:25 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-06 15:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-06 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:43 ` David Howells
2006-12-06 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-06 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:43 ` David Howells
2006-12-06 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-06 18:02 ` David Howells
2006-12-07 1:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 6:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 7:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 10:29 ` David Howells
2006-12-07 10:42 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 17:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-07 17:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-08 16:52 ` [PATCH] group xtime, xtime_lock, wall_to_monotonic, avenrun, calc_load_count fields together in ktimed Eric Dumazet
2006-12-09 5:46 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09 6:07 ` Randy Dunlap
2006-12-11 20:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 22:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-13 21:26 ` [PATCH] Introduce time_data, a new structure to hold jiffies, xtime, xtime_lock, wall_to_monotonic, calc_load_count and avenrun Eric Dumazet
2006-12-15 5:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-15 11:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-15 16:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-07 18:08 ` [PATCH] Export current_is_keventd() for libphy Maciej W. Rozycki
2006-12-07 18:59 ` Andy Fleming
2006-12-07 16:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 17:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 18:16 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-07 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-07 15:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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