Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list

[Patrick McHardy]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:27:50 +0200
>
> > Since you obviously need a write lock here to be sure following
> > can be done by one cpu only.
> >
> > You have same problem all over this patch.
>
> RTNL semaphore is held across all modification operations.

If this will also be used for multicast lists, changes can happen
(IPv6) without the RTNL.
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