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Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:33:40 +0800
From:	tingwei liu <tingw.liu@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: [PATCH 1/1]core:Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name

>From 5d787e8c3725efa6af3036eeb52aba1905c70de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root <root@...ux-19.site>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:39:59 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Change a wrong explain about dev_get_by_name


Signed-off-by: Tingwei Liu <tingw.liu@...il.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d540ced..20c5c7c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -700,10 +700,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_name_rcu);
  *     @name: name to find
  *
  *     Find an interface by name. This can be called from any
- *     context and does its own locking. The returned handle has
- *     the usage count incremented and the caller must use dev_put() to
- *     release it when it is no longer needed. %NULL is returned if no
- *     matching device is found.
+ *     context except hard irq context and does its own locking.
+ *     The returned handle has the usage count incremented and the
+ *     caller must use dev_put() to release it when it is no longer
+ *     needed. %NULL is returned if no matching device is found.
  */

 struct net_device *dev_get_by_name(struct net *net, const char *name)
--
1.6.0.2
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