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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.999.0709022003110.7103@sheep.housecafe.de>
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:04:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
cc: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
johannes@...solutions.net
Subject: Re: RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Vendor module calls kernel api incorrectly. dev_set_promiscuity requires
> that the calling thread hold rtnl mutex (ie call rtnl_lock). It's their bug,
> netdev doesn't want to hear about it.
OK, that's all I needed to know. Thank you both for your comments!
Christian.
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