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Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:37:40 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] net: use mutex_is_locked() for ASSERT_RTNL()


> I don't see how it could warn about that.  Nor should it - one might want
> to check that rtnl_lock is held inside preempt_disable() or spin_lock or
> whatever.

I agree with this. IIRC I removed some ASSERT_RTNL()s in the wireless
code (or maybe it was only during testing patches) where we had a
function that required only the rtnl to be held but in certain contexts
was called from within an RCU section.

johannes

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