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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2012-01-09 01:56:37 +0100
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2012-01-09 01:56:37 +0100
commit04cf399640b7acfa9abe2eb7900cd934db8af697 (patch)
treef9a055f2f0170550f5f0b0507b06ffce8d98945d /net/tipc/config.c
parentMerge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' into rmobile-latest (diff)
parentaudit: always follow va_copy() with va_end() (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into rmobile-latest
Conflicts: arch/arm/mach-shmobile/Makefile Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/config.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/config.c b/net/tipc/config.c
index b25a396b7e1e..4785bf26cdf4 100644
--- a/net/tipc/config.c
+++ b/net/tipc/config.c
@@ -184,13 +184,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *cfg_set_own_addr(void)
" (cannot change node address once assigned)");
/*
- * Must release all spinlocks before calling start_net() because
- * Linux version of TIPC calls eth_media_start() which calls
- * register_netdevice_notifier() which may block!
- *
- * Temporarily releasing the lock should be harmless for non-Linux TIPC,
- * but Linux version of eth_media_start() should really be reworked
- * so that it can be called with spinlocks held.
+ * Must temporarily release configuration spinlock while switching into
+ * networking mode as it calls tipc_eth_media_start(), which may sleep.
+ * Releasing the lock is harmless as other locally-issued configuration
+ * commands won't occur until this one completes, and remotely-issued
+ * configuration commands can't be received until a local configuration
+ * command to enable the first bearer is received and processed.
*/
spin_unlock_bh(&config_lock);