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Message-Id: <20071008.000653.51864134.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: arnd@...db.de Cc: jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/core: split dev_ifsioc() according to locking From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 02:17:08 +0200 > On Saturday 06 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > This always bugged me: dev_ioctl() called dev_ifsioc() either inside > > read_lock(dev_base_lock) or rtnl_lock(), depending on the ioctl being > > executed. > > > > This change moves the ioctls executed inside dev_base_lock to a new > > function, dev_ifsioc_locked(). Now the locking context is completely > > clear to the reader. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...hat.com> > > Great idea! I think so too, applied, thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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