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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (1/4) remove hashbin from irlan
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:13:55 -0700
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:39:36 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> The locking in hashbin_delete is a problem since unregister_netdevice
> can't be called with locks held in 2.6.0-test3.
> 
> Replace it with simpler list macros.
> Insertion/deletion protected with RTNL semaphore, and read
> uses RCU.

Patch applied, thanks.