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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]core:Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:32:29 -0700
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On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 17:33 +0800, tingwei liu wrote:
> From 5d787e8c3725efa6af3036eeb52aba1905c70de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: root <root@linux-19.site>
> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:39:59 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name
> 

No changelog ? This patch really needs a changelog.

I have no idea why we should document this function being not safe in
irq context.

Most part of networking stack is non safe in hard irq context.

Should we add a comment in front of all possible entry points ?