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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCHv2] batman-adv: Don't call
	sysfs_del_hardif() in atomic context
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On Sunday 31 October 2010 22:07:37 Linus L=C3=BCssing wrote:
> sysfs_del_hardif invokes kobject_put, which might sleep. However, we
> are not allowed to sleep during a call_rcu. There is also no need to
> do the removal with an atomic call_rcu, as kobject_put only frees the
> kobject when there is no more reference to it anyway.

Applied in revision 1856.

Thanks,
Marek