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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel crash after using new Intel NIC (igb)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 09:43:03 +0200
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Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 =C3=A0 09:38 +0200, Ingo Molnar a =C3=A9crit :

> Yes and i do this all the time as well, to make life easier for the=20
> stable team.
>=20
> What wasnt fine was to not follow up the backportable hack with the=20
> proper patch though. Or did you plan to do that yourself if Arun=20
> fails to complete the generic variant? (in which case my remark is=20
> moot)
>=20

I am currently working on seqlock.h split into seqcount.h and seqlock.h=
,
because I really need this split, but can take care of this work too, n=
o
problem :

I asked Arun if he wanted to make this himself, because initial idea wa=
s
coming from him, not because I did not want to make it ;)