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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:11:59 -0800
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:11:47 +0100
Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de> wrote:

> the attached patch updates the linkwatch code so that it backs off and retries 
> whenever it cannot get the rtnl semaphore.

I think we should fix locking conflicts created by things like what
the sungem driver is doing instead.