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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: get rid of dev_base_lock
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:49:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288360170.2560.43.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101029134749.GC20832@suse.de>

Le vendredi 29 octobre 2010 à 06:47 -0700, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:19:27PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > dev_base_lock was the legacy rwlock used to protect netdevice list, and
> > is expected to vanish.
> > 
> > We now use RTNL and RCU locking.
> 
> Is this a .38 patch, or something that needs to be in .37?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h


Its a .38 patch, no hurry ;)

Thanks



      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-29 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-29 13:19 [PATCH] staging: get rid of dev_base_lock Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 13:47 ` Greg KH
2010-10-29 13:49   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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