netdev - [PATCH net-next] bridge: remove a redundant synchronize

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Date:	Tue, 02 Apr 2013 08:45:00 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] bridge: remove a redundant synchronize_net()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit 00cfec37484761 (net: add a synchronize_net() in
netdev_rx_handler_unregister())
allows us to remove the synchronized_net() call from del_nbp()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
---
 net/bridge/br_if.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index ef1b914..f17fcb3 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -148,7 +148,6 @@ static void del_nbp(struct net_bridge_port *p)
 	dev->priv_flags &= ~IFF_BRIDGE_PORT;
 
 	netdev_rx_handler_unregister(dev);
-	synchronize_net();
 
 	netdev_upper_dev_unlink(dev, br->dev);
 


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