netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:40:48 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink
 dump callbacks

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:56:07 +0200
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:

> @@ -1980,7 +1978,7 @@ static int __net_init rtnetlink_net_init(struct net *net)
>  {
>  	struct sock *sk;
>  	sk = netlink_kernel_create(net, NETLINK_ROUTE, RTNLGRP_MAX,
> -				   rtnetlink_rcv, &rtnl_mutex, THIS_MODULE);
> +				   rtnetlink_rcv, NULL, THIS_MODULE);

Looks like only genetlink is still using the mutex argument.
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