netdev - Re: [NETLINK 01/04]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it

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Message-Id: <20070416.165554.55726278.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:55:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NETLINK 01/04]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to
 override it

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:51:53 +0200 (MEST)

> [NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it
> 
> Switch cb_lock to mutex and allow netlink kernel users to override it
> with a subsystem specific mutex for consistent locking in dump callbacks.
> All netlink_dump_start users have been audited not to rely on any
> side-effects of the previously used spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>

Applied.

The call signature of netlink_kernel_create() is getting huge.
It's getting near the time we should pass in a descriotor
block in the form of a structure to specify all of these
parameters.

It would have even made this patch significantly smaller since the
default of NULL would have worked out perfectly.
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