netdev - Re: [0/4] Fix addrconf race conditions

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Message-Id: <20100518.152759.218054760.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 15:27:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, jbohac@...e.cz,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [0/4] Fix addrconf race conditions

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:25:50 -0700

> I wonder if so many fine grained locks are really necessary at
> all.  Everything but timers looks like it is under RTNL mutex
> already.

I can't see any reasonable alternative, and it took weeks to get
a fix at all.

So I'm going to apply Herbert's fixes with the __KERNEL__ header
bit fixed up.

Thanks Herbert!
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