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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.2.1[78] : RTNETLINK lock not properly locking ?
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:27:57 +0100 (MET)
From: Willy Tarreau <willy.lkml@free.fr>
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Quoting "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>:

>    Date: 	Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:39:03 +0100 (MET)
>    From: Willy Tarreau <willy.lkml@free.fr>
> 
>    Thanks in advance for any comment,
> 
> All of this is protected by lock_kernel() so none of the
> A,B,C,whatever spots can be interrupted in 2.2.x

so, does this mean that rtnl_*lock* are completely useless ???

Willy
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