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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 v2] net: consolidate and fix
 ethtool_ops->get_settings calling
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 22:42:41 +0200
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Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 08:46:01PM CEST, bhutchings@solarflare.com wrote:
>On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 14:26 +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> This patch does several things:
>> - introduces __ethtool_get_settings which is called from ethtool code and
>>   from dev_ethtool_get_settings() as well.
>> - dev_ethtool_get_settings() becomes rtnl wrapper for
>>   __ethtool_get_settings()
>[...]
>
>I don't like this locking change.  Most other dev_*() functions require
>the caller to hold RTNL, and it will break any OOT module calling
>dev_ethtool_get_settings() without producing any warning at compile
>time.  Why not put an ASSERT_RTNL() in it instead?

Hmm. Okay, then I would remove dev_ethtool_get_settings() from
net/core/dev.c and only put __ethtool_get_settings() to
net/core/ethtool.c. Makes more sense to me to have it there...
ASSERT_RTNL woudl be good there as well.

>
>The rest of this looks fine.
>
>Ben. 
>
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