Re: [PATCH v2] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock protection

From: Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:53:44 +0800 > From: Yang Wei > > kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to > protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock > in ethtool_ops. > > Signed-off-by: Yang Wei Applied to net-next, thanks. -- To

[PATCH v2] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock protection

From: Yang Wei kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock in ethtool_ops. Signed-off-by: Yang Wei --- Hi David, I regenerate this patch based on net/next repo in v2. Wei

[PATCH v2] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock protection

From: Yang Wei wei.y...@windriver.com kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock in ethtool_ops. Signed-off-by: Yang Wei wei.y...@windriver.com --- Hi David, I regenerate this patch based on net/next

Re: [PATCH v2] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock protection

From: wei.y...@windriver.com Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:53:44 +0800 From: Yang Wei wei.y...@windriver.com kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock in ethtool_ops. Signed-off-by: Yang Wei