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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: get rid of dev_base_lock
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:47:49 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 03:19:27PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> dev_base_lock was the legacy rwlock used to protect netdevice list, and
> is expected to vanish.
> 
> We now use RTNL and RCU locking.

Is this a .38 patch, or something that needs to be in .37?

thanks,

greg k-h