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SubjectRe: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote:
> the thing is I need to prevent Tx/Rx when a topology change is initiated
> from the ioctl (registering a virtual adapter is just one example), so they
> all share a single lock and I must use spin_lock_bh from the ioctl.

I do not think that they all need to shared a single lock. And we don't
have your code, but spin_lock_bh may be an incorrect choice too.

Note that when topology changes, that is an operation which might take
more than a few milliseconds. Therefore, your solution should do
something OTHER than spinning on a lock, while topology is changing.

dev->open and dev->do_ioctl are called with rtnl_lock already held. You
can sleep in them. Use that to your advantage...

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