| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| 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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