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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sbhatewara@vmware.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	pv-drivers@vmware.com, ronghua@vmware.com, matthieu@vmware.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: vmxnet3 fixes [4/5] Do not reset when the device is not opened
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:32:10 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100715.183210.226762655.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007151448260.25472@localhost.localdomain>

From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:20:52 -0700 (PDT)

> Is this what you suggest :
> 
> ---
> 
> Hold rtnl_lock to get the right link state.

It ought to work, but make sure that it is legal to take the
RTNL semaphore in all contexts in which this code block
might be called.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-16  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LRH.2.00.1007070125440.4652@localhost.localdomain>
2010-07-07  9:24 ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [2/5] Interrupt control bitmap Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14  0:48   ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: " Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:04     ` David Miller
2010-07-16  1:20       ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-16  5:19         ` David Miller
2010-07-07  9:28 ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [3/5] Initialize link state at probe time Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-07  9:31   ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [4/5] Do not reset when the device is not opened Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14  0:49     ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: " Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:07       ` David Miller
2010-07-16  1:20         ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-16  1:32           ` David Miller [this message]
2010-07-16  8:17             ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-17 23:35               ` David Miller
2010-07-19 17:02                 ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-19 20:16                   ` David Miller
2010-07-07  9:34   ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net: vmxnet3 fixes [5/5] Respect the interrupt type in VM configuration Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14  0:51     ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: " Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:11       ` David Miller
2010-07-16  1:21         ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-16  1:28           ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: fix LRO feature update in vmxnet3 Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-16  5:17             ` David Miller
2010-07-19 20:16           ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: vmxnet3 fixes [5/5] Respect the interrupt type in VM configuration David Miller
2010-07-14  0:48   ` [PATCH 2.6.35-rc1] net-next: vmxnet3 fixes [3/5] Initialize link state at probe time Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-14 21:10     ` David Miller
2010-07-16  1:20       ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-16  5:44         ` David Miller
2010-07-16  7:51           ` Shreyas Bhatewara
2010-07-18 21:49             ` David Miller

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