netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del

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Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:07:56 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if()

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:40:20 -0800

> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:09:07 +0100
> Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>> add_del_if() is called with RTNL, we can use __dev_get_by_index()
>> instead of [dev_get_by_index() + dev_put()]
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
 ...
> 
> As part of the general ref count purge sure.
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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