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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rtnetlink: rtnl_setlink() and
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Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:59:31 +0200

> rtnl_getlink() & rtnl_setlink() run with RTNL held, we can use
> __dev_get_by_index() and __dev_get_by_name() variants and avoid
> dev_hold()/dev_put()
> 
> Adds to rtnl_getlink() the capability to find a device by its name,
> not only by its index.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks.