From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Date: 11 Mar 2003 16:31:46 -0800 The caller's didn't need to stop packet processing, just remove their type from a list or some other call back hook. A simple pointer update takes care of removing a simple call back. The list delete rcu code takes care of the memory barriers and doing the updates in the right order. This ensures no future packet processing will grab that token Ok, I'm fine with this then. Linus you can apply all of his patches. - : 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
