netdev - Re: Can we replace the msleep(250) in dev.c netdev_wait

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Message-ID: <1359492330.30177.7.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:45:30 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	greearb@...delatech.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can we replace the msleep(250) in dev.c netdev_wait_allrefs?

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 15:31 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> If you only notice some time in the future that something has hung in
> this state, the original message could be lost.  Therefore, I
> definitely prefer that this thing keeps barking into the logs
> periodically.

Not sure we need the full stack, as it probably contains no useful
context / information at this point.

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