Re: [PATCH 2/2] use rtnl_lock_interruptible in 8139 to avoid shutdown hang

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:37:14PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:16:30 +0100
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The 8139too thread needs to use rtnl_lock_interruptible so it can avoid
> > doing the actual work once it's been kill_proc()ed on module removal
> > time.
> > 
> > Based on debugging and an earlier patch that adds a driver-private
> > semaphore from Herbert Xu.
> 
> I've applied these two patches, they look perfectly fine.
> Thanks Christoph.

Btw, there's some confusing between rtnl_lock and rtnl_shlock (similar
for the other variants).  Is there an agenda behind this versions or
would you take a patch that unifies the lock assecors?