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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base_lock) usages
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:46 -0800
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To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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 many
of the users of dev_base_lock just for reading.

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