Subject: Re: Deadlock in sungem/ip_auto_config/linkwatch

From: "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:02:48 -0800

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:50:50 +0100
Stefan Rompf <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Btw, what is the planned difference between rtnl_shlock() and rtnl_exlock()? 
> Even though the later is a null operation right now, I don't want to hold 
> more locks than needed in the linkwatch code.

The idea was originally to make the RTNL semaphore a read-write one,
but I doubt we'll ever make that happen and the shlock bits will just
disappear entirely.