netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast router list manipulation

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Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	mirqus@...il.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast router list manipulation

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:44:12 -0700

> Code that doesn't need rcu for traversal should not use it.
> It just confuses things and implies that rcu_read_lock is held
> which it is not in this code.

Fair enough, I've reverted by change.

This would have been helped if either the patch was split up into
two pieces (one straight hlist macro conversion, another removing
the RCU tag) _or_ the commit message explained why the RCU tag
could be elided.
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