Re: [PATCH 2/4] net: introduce a list of device addressesdev_addr_list

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 18:54:59 EST


From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:49:17 -0700

> This lock is unnecessary, use RCU list for read.
> Since all changes are under RTNL mutex, there is no chance
> for conflict on update.

Agreed.
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