Re: [1/2] [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device

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From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 22:13:22 +1000

> [NET] link_watch: Move link watch list into net_device
> 
> These days the link watch mechanism is an integral part of the
> network subsystem as it manages the carrier status.  So it now
> makes sense to allocate some memory for it in net_device rather
> than allocating it on demand.
> 
> In fact, this is necessary because we can't tolerate a memory
> allocation failure since that means we'd have to potentially
> throw a link up event away.
> 
> It also simplifies the code greatly.
> 
> In doing so I discovered a subtle race condition in the use
> of singleevent.  This race condition still exists (and is
> somewhat magnified) without singleevent but it's now plugged
> thanks to an smp_mb__before_clear_bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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