Re: [PATCH] net/core: split dev_ifsioc() according to locking

[David Miller]

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 02:17:08 +0200

> On Saturday 06 October 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > This always bugged me:  dev_ioctl() called dev_ifsioc() either inside
> > read_lock(dev_base_lock) or rtnl_lock(), depending on the ioctl being
> > executed.
> > 
> > This change moves the ioctls executed inside dev_base_lock to a new
> > function, dev_ifsioc_locked().  Now the locking context is completely
> > clear to the reader.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Great idea!

I think so too, applied, thanks!
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