From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: PATCH: bonding might sleep with lock held
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:04:45 +0200
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On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:44:45 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 	It will race against the timers, although I don't see anything
> in there offhand that would conflict.  It just feels somehow unclean to
> do it without the lock.

Why should the timers care if there can be a packet received from the 
network or not?  (this is all what dev_remove_pack prevents) 

-Andi