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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Nate Lawson wrote:

NL>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Harti Brandt wrote:
NL>> M. Warner Losh wrote:
NL>> MWL>Right now there's no safe way to use driver locks.  Sometimes, we have
NL>> MWL>to acquire the locks NET, DRIVER.  Other times you do the reverse.
NL>> MWL>There are other times you do need to call ether_ifdetach with the lock
NL>> MWL>held.  This is a real mess.  I'm contemplating a strawman proposal to
NL>> MWL>help address these issues.
NL>>
NL>> I'd love to see it.
NL>
NL>Your comments are coming in a bit late.  I believe the next step is for
NL>Warner to send out his proposal once he's ready.

Well, I tried to bring up this topic at least twice during the last
months...

harti
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