From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:18:26 -0500
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David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:11:47 +0100
> Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>the attached patch updates the linkwatch code so that it backs off and retries 
>>whenever it cannot get the rtnl semaphore.
> 
> 
> I think we should fix locking conflicts created by things like what
> the sungem driver is doing instead.


Agreed.

	Jeff