On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 11:11 -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
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>         The various MAC manipulating functions are either called under
> RTNL (as bond_alb_set_mac_address is) or take pains to acquire RTNL
> before doing anything with the MAC.  Also, the slave list and
> curr_active_slave are mutexed by RTNL, so those inspections should be
> safe.
> 
>         I'm reasonably sure that the curr_slave_lock is superfluous
> (which wasn't the case when it was originally introduced), but I
> haven't had a chance to validate this.  The locking has changed from
> what's documented in the header file; RTNL wasn't used for this when
> that was written.

OK, sounds good.  I'll let you know if I observe any other odd behavior
with the bonding driver.

Thanks for the great support!  Cheers!

-- 
Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>

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