netdev - Re: [PATCH linux] net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy table

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Date:   Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:38:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     w.bumiller@...xmox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux] net: fix deadlock while clearing neighbor proxy
 table

From: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@...xmox.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:17:01 +0200

> David Miller wrote:
>> Another way is to rename pneigh_ifdown() to "pneigh_ifdown_and_unlock()".
> 
> Sure, I can send a v2 with whichever is preferred - personally I prefer
> the rename as it'll be visible at both the calling & implementation
> side.

Yeah the rename is probably best.