On 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The following sequence of patches replaces the remaining use of brlock > with RCU. Most of this is fairly straightforward. The unregister functions > use synchronize_kernel(), perhaps there should be a special version to > indicate sychronizing with network BH. > > Comments? I'm not going to take this directly, but if it passes muster with David, I'm happy. The fewer locking primitives we need, the better, and brlocks have had enough problems that I wouldn't mind getting rid of them. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
