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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: sysfs locking fix.
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:50:52 +0100

> Forget earlier patch, it is wrong...
> 
> The stp change code generates "sleeping function called from invalid context"
> because rtnl_lock() called with BH disabled. This fixes it by not acquiring then
> dropping the bridge lock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

Applied, thanks Stephen.