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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:23:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] (0/8) replace brlock with RCU
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On 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> The following sequence of patches replaces the remaining use of brlock
> with RCU.  Most of this is fairly straightforward. The unregister functions
> use synchronize_kernel(), perhaps there should be a special version to
> indicate sychronizing with network BH. 
>
> Comments?

I'm not going to take this directly, but if it passes muster with David, 
I'm happy.  The fewer locking primitives we need, the better, and brlocks 
have had enough problems that I wouldn't mind getting rid of them.

		Linus

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