netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] slip: fix get

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Message-Id: <20100819.001756.43029083.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] slip: fix get_stats() method

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:13:08 +0200

> Use integrated net_device_stats instead of a static one, and make sure
> no transient values are feeded. ndo_get_stats() can be called by
> concurrent cpus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

It's pretty freaky how, even to this day, we keep finding these static
function local variables in code which potentially runs multithreaded.
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