netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix RTNL assert fail in DAD

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Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:52:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix RTNL assert fail in DAD

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:44:42 +0100

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 01:53:19PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> Ok, the timer stuff could run from a workqueue just fine.
> 
> We have no-timer invocations, too, like addrconf_prefix_rcv. In that case the
> whole handling of the router advertisment should get deferred into the
> workqueue.

Just to be clear, you are saying that this doesn't need to be
synchronous?  Handling a prefix event seems like something that would
in fact need to be.
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