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Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:59:05 +0200 From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> To: hadi@...erus.ca CC: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...ru>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, devel@...nvz.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel) jamal wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 14:34 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >>Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be >>preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network >>configuration. > > > or you can just hold rtnl while using genl. > I do agree it would be easier to just use rtnetlink ... The rtnl needs to be held in either case, but using a different netlink family introduces races in message processing. For example a simple: ip link add dev veth0 ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 dev veth0 might fail because we have two different input queues and the routing message might get processed before the link message. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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