Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:39:15 -0700 (PDT)


From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 01:34:19 +0200 (CEST)

You also have to wait for the already running
operations to finish, before you can allow the module to unload.

These things run under dev_base_lock, so either they find the device
or they don't, and since they hold a spinlock they can't preempt.
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