On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:53:31PM -0700, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 
>       Some; I've been working on it over time since we discussed it
> last time, and have gone through a couple of prototypes that didn't work
> out.  I think I've got an overall reworking of things (link monitoring,
> that yucky ioctl call thing, enslave, deslave, change active, linkwatch)
> that will permit the needed locking rearrangement.  If all else stays
> calm, I was planning to float some test patches hopefully next week
> (among other things, I need to merge up to the current mainline).

Sounds good.

>       I hadn't seen that particular RTNL assert failure before, but
> the s390 qeth driver hits this problem as well because it (like the USB
> drivers) can sleep in places that most PCI drivers don't.

The RTNL assertion failure is due to the CHANGEADDR notification which
was added around the end of May.

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