netdev - Re: [PATCH] rtnl: Simplify ASSERT

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Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 19:51:18 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtnl: Simplify ASSERT_RTNL

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Regardless of the correctness of where we have ASSERT_RTNL.
> I think not actually taking the mutex on the assertion failure path
> (just so we can release it), is still a good deal regardless.


Agreed. I actually have an identical patch somewhere that
I wanted to submit soon.


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