netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del

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Message-ID: <4AF1D97C.6080603@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:43:56 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bridge: remove dev_put() in add_del_if()

Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> 
> As part of the general ref count purge sure.
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 

Yes, sure... but nf_queue.c is such an abuser that I doubt we
really can make dev_put() doing the atomic_dec_test() one day...
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