linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock protection

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Message-Id: <20140523.160945.226886017757584215.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2014 16:09:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	Wei.Yang@...driver.com
Cc:	peppe.cavallaro@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock
 protection

From: <Wei.Yang@...driver.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 19:05:03 +0800

> From: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@...driver.com>
> 
> kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to
> protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock
> in ethtool_ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@...driver.com>

This does not apply cleanly to the net-next tree, please respin.
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