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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v4] netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:52:38 -0500 (EST)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:24:45 -0800

>>  	if (np->dev_name)
>> -		ndev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, np->dev_name);
>> +		ndev = __dev_get_by_name(&init_net, np->dev_name);
 ...
> Please revert this part.

You mean just revert that hunk above that made it use the
non-refcounting version of dev_get_by_name()?