netdev - [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base

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Message-Id: <20091110175446.280423729@vyatta.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:54:46 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] netdev: get rid of read_lock(&dev_base_lock) usages

The goal is to eliminate dev_base_lock completely, and just use RCU
and rtnl_mutex for network devices. This series gets rid of the many
of the users of dev_base_lock just for reading.

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