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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base_lock)
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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:22:10 -0800
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:18:14 +0100
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger a =C3=A9crit :
> > The goal is to eliminate dev_base_lock completely, and just use RCU
> > and rtnl_mutex for network devices. This series gets rid of the man=
y
> > of the users of dev_base_lock just for reading.
> >=20
>=20
> Nice, but I was doing all this work Stephen... maybe I am too slow ?
>=20
> I believe you missed one of my patch (but David is traveling)
>=20
> [PATCH net-next-2.6] ipv6: speedup inet6_dump_ifinfo()
>=20
> This conflicts with your :
>=20
> [PATCH 08/10] ipv6: use RCU to walk list of network devices
>=20

Inflight conflict.

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