netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] 3c59x: Remove incorrect locking; correct documented lock hierarchy

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Date:	Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:37:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] 3c59x: Remove incorrect locking; correct
 documented lock hierarchy

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:08:27 +0100

> I think this is safe after all because ethtool and MII ioctls are all
> serialised by the RTNL.

Well since you said that there was a regression that you're unable
to reproduce, I was trying to find a probably cause for it :-)

I think you should work to resolve that report, and resend this
locking patch once that is sorted out.

Thanks.
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