netdev - [PATCH] netns: init dev_base

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Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 15:51:33 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: [PATCH] netns: init dev_base_lock only once

* it already statically initialized
* reinitializing live global spinlock every time netns is
  setup is also wrong

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...ru>
---

 net/core/dev.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -4330,7 +4330,6 @@ static struct hlist_head *netdev_create_hash(void)
 static int __net_init netdev_init(struct net *net)
 {
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&net->dev_base_head);
-	rwlock_init(&dev_base_lock);
 
 	net->dev_name_head = netdev_create_hash();
 	if (net->dev_name_head == NULL)

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