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Re: Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders

from [Jeff Garzik] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Patch: Make linkwatch more robust against rtnl holders
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:18:26 -0500
Cc: Stefan Rompf <srompf@xxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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David S. Miller wrote: 
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:11:47 +0100
Stefan Rompf <srompf@xxxxxx> wrote:


the attached patch updates the linkwatch code so that it backs off and retries whenever it cannot get the rtnl semaphore. 


I think we should fix locking conflicts created by things like what
the sungem driver is doing instead.



Agreed.

        Jeff




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