From: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 17:24:36 +0200
> Hi, > > I would like to propose following patches for net-next-2.6/2.6.40. They > include minor cleanups of comments, a big rename patch s/hna/tt/, but > also a remove some duplicated code. The spinlock which protected the > list of possible interfaces for batman-adv was completely replaced by > rtnl_lock because we want to be in sync with the rest of the network > stack and the extra spinlock made everything more complex without giving > any additional feature (and rtnl_lock was already used everywhere). > Related to this patch is also a fix which should prevent a deadlock > between the sysfs code and the event listener. Also the reference > counting in find_router was fixed when an error was detected after the > refcounter was already increased. The only feature is the support for > multiple vlans in the bridge loop detection code. > > I will submit a patch to remove the atomic_dec_not_zero from main.h > after Linus accepted the patch you already saw. Pulled, thanks Sven.
