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Subject: Re: pull request: batman-adv 2011-05-08
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Sven Eckelmann <sven-KaDOiPu9UxWEi8DpZVb4nw@public.gmane.org>
Date: Sun,  8 May 2011 17:24:36 +0200

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to propose following patches for net-next-2.6/2.6.40. They
> include minor cleanups of comments, a big rename patch s/hna/tt/, but
> also a remove some duplicated code. The spinlock which protected the
> list of possible interfaces for batman-adv was completely replaced by
> rtnl_lock because we want to be in sync with the rest of the network
> stack and the extra spinlock made everything more complex without giving
> any additional feature (and rtnl_lock was already used everywhere).
> Related to this patch is also a fix which should prevent a deadlock
> between the sysfs code and the event listener. Also the reference
> counting in find_router was fixed when an error was detected after the
> refcounter was already increased. The only feature is the support for
> multiple vlans in the bridge loop detection code.
> 
> I will submit a patch to remove the atomic_dec_not_zero from main.h
> after Linus accepted the patch you already saw.

Pulled, thanks Sven.