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From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:13:43 -0500

> So should I put the rtnl acquisitions back in iw_cxgb3?  Or fix cxgb3 to 
> not assume rtnl is held?

It appears that the kernel always invokes the ethtool ops with
RTNL held, and therefore that's the environment that needs
to be ensured.