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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move inetdev/ifa over to RCU
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:58:20 -0700
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:34:28 +1000
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> BTW, it looks like you can remove inetdev_lock altogether.  All its
> users already assume that they don't race against each other by
> taking the rtnl lock.

I think it's needed at least for the:

	dev->ip_ptr = idev;
	in_dev_get(idev);

thing, isn't it?