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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:25:50 -0700

> I wonder if so many fine grained locks are really necessary at
> all.  Everything but timers looks like it is under RTNL mutex
> already.

I can't see any reasonable alternative, and it took weeks to get
a fix at all.

So I'm going to apply Herbert's fixes with the __KERNEL__ header
bit fixed up.

Thanks Herbert!