Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:37:21 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4 |
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do_ioctl is inside rtnl_lock...
Remember if you need to alter the rules, you can always queue work in the current context, and have a kernel thread handle the work. The nice thing about a kernel thread is that you start with a [almost] clean state, when it comes to locks.
Jeff
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