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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock
 protection
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 23:33:45 -0400 (EDT)
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From: <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:53:44 +0800

> From: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>
> 
> kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to
> protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock
> in ethtool_ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks.