On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 9:45AM +1100, James Morris wrote: > rtnl is a global semaphore for serializing net device events. I vaguely > recall the argument that it belongs in rtnetlink because this is the > 'home' for net admin code. What's being serialized? Now that I'm looking deeper, I see rntl_(un)lock being called in core network code, in net device drivers, and in protocol code. How does one know when that mutex needs to be held? Jason - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
