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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ben@decadent.org.uk
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] 3c59x: Remove incorrect locking; correct documented lock hierarchy
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:37:36 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100901.173736.190380817.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283378907.5323.287.camel@localhost>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:08:27 +0100

> I think this is safe after all because ethtool and MII ioctls are all
> serialised by the RTNL.

Well since you said that there was a regression that you're unable
to reproduce, I was trying to find a probably cause for it :-)

I think you should work to resolve that report, and resend this
locking patch once that is sorted out.

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-02  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31  0:15 [PATCH net-2.6] 3c59x: Remove incorrect locking; correct documented lock hierarchy Ben Hutchings
2010-09-01 21:38 ` David Miller
2010-09-01 21:47   ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-01 22:08     ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-02  0:37       ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-02  0:42         ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-02  1:02           ` David Miller

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