From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jarek Poplawski Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: deadlock during net device unregistration - V2 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:52:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20081004075233.GB2536@ami.dom.local> References: <20081001.031243.255655293.davem@davemloft.net> <20081001141432.470106980@theryb.frec.bull.fr> <20081001194825.GA2520@ami.dom.local> <48E3E64E.50106@fr.ibm.com> <20081001233152.GA2411@ami.dom.local> <48E4E772.2020208@bull.net> <20081002183819.GA2664@ami.dom.local> <20081002215502.q9and4a6kg4cs0o8@intran0x.frec.bull.fr> <20081002203435.GC2664@ami.dom.local> <20081004074248.GA2536@ami.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Daniel Lezcano , "David S. Miller" , netdev To: Benjamin Thery Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.24]:22969 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752052AbYJDHwG (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 03:52:06 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so640417eyi.37 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081004074248.GA2536@ami.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:42:48AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... > During this all other works would be unnecessarily blocked by the > linkwatch, what looks a bit too hoggish. Or even more: can't some of these blockeds task hold our refs too? Jarek P.