On Sun, 2006-09-07 at 17:54 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote: > Look at where dev->queue_lock is taken, whenever a qdisc or > filter is added, modified or deleted the lock is taken. Using > your approach packets get dropped while such an operation is > taking place.
True, this will be bad for devices that dont care about any of this (looping etc). Perhaps it may even have been a reason that held me back - i dont remember and it doesnt matter. So go ahead and submit a patch while keeping in mind the same reasoning as above. > Your approach is wrong. And this is where we are going to go into a loop. Do you want to go that path? I suggest we dont. cheers, jamal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
