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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][ATM] add reference counting to atm_dev 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 May 2003 17:14:57 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 12:05:41 -0400
From: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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In message <20030515.171457.02279102.davem@redhat.com>,"David S. Miller" writes
:
>There is no correlation between whether you use netdevice or not
>and whether network configuration changes should be synchronized
>using the RTNL semaphore :-)

true.  however, i think i would like to do both at once.  but it seems 
like just replacing atm_dev_lock with rtnl would probably be enough
for right now.

>Ok, I'll apply this.  But long term we really need to clean out
>the cobwebs here, use RTNL, do solid module refcounting etc.

are you referring to the other bits of linux-atm like br2684, lane,
mpoa, pppoatm or something else?
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