Re: [RFC] add rtnl semaphore to linux-atm

[chas williams <chas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <20031001054226.126cea7b.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>,"David S. Miller" writes:
>Although, unless VCC connect can potentially sleep, it might
>be better to keep exporting the rwlock and take it as a reader
>instead of grabbing the rtnl semaphore.

i had initially written it that way but remembered at one point i
was going to use the rtnl semaphore to handle this problem.  any
opinions on what is 'better'?