From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if() Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:43:56 +0100 Message-ID: <4AF1D97C.6080603@gmail.com> References: <4AF1D153.5040309@gmail.com> <20091104114020.5a2aef2c@nehalam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "David S. Miller" , Linux Netdev List To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from gw1.cosmosbay.com ([212.99.114.194]:36583 "EHLO gw1.cosmosbay.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757970AbZKDTnz (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:43:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091104114020.5a2aef2c@nehalam> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stephen Hemminger a =E9crit : >=20 > As part of the general ref count purge sure. > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger >=20 Yes, sure... but nf_queue.c is such an abuser that I doubt we really can make dev_put() doing the atomic_dec_test() one day...