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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: tingwei liu <tingw.liu@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1]core:Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:43:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363801389.3333.25.camel@edumazet-glaptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363799443.2677.2.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 17:10 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> If they are wrongly documented as 'can be called from any context', yes.

Wow, thats really useful.

Why is this function not allowed from hard irq context, we have no idea.

Why someone would like to call it from hard irq context, we have no
idea.

I hope to get a clear explanation here, not only playing with words.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20  9:33 [PATCH 1/1]core:Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name tingwei liu
2013-03-20 15:32 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-20 17:10   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-20 17:43     ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2013-03-23  1:24       ` tingwei liu
2013-03-23  1:32         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-24  7:07           ` tingwei liu
2013-03-23  1:33   ` tingwei liu

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