netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:55:01 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	fubar@...ibm.com (Jay Vosburgh)
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, andy@...yhouse.net, olel@....pl,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24

Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> wrote:
>
>        For the case of the bond_set_multicast_list function, changing
> the existing write_lock to a read_lock_bh doesn't affect any calls to

Right that should also resolve the lockdep issue.  So as long as you
guys are sure that this is safe with respect to the rest of the bonding
driver it's fine by me.

BTW you only need read_lock since set_multicast_list always gets called
with BH off.

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