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SubjectRe: [patch] net/core/filter.c: Fix build error
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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:57:21 -0700

> On Thu, 26 May 2011 14:38:43 -0400 (EDT) David Miller wrote:
>
>> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
>> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:31:06 -0700
>>
>> > My suggestion would be to see about again adding
>> > #include <linux/ratelimit.h> somehow
>> > back to kernel.h which commit 3fff4c42bd0a removed
>> > in 2009 because of the spinlock issues.
>> >
>> > Any suggestion on how best to fix it generically?
>>
>> I don't think we want spinlock_t's definition being sucked
>> into kernel.h's dependency food chain.
>>
>> Even if desirable, I think it'd be quite a bit of surgery,
>> too much to do at this stage.
>>
>> So for now how about we make the ratelimit warn interfaces be a true,
>> instead of a pseudo, dependency on ratelimit.h by moving those
>> definitions into ratelimit.h?
>
> Works for me. Thanks.
>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Thanks for reviewing Randy, I've put this into net-2.6 and will
push it out to Linus soon.


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