On Thursday 07 December 2006 01:36, Larry Finger wrote: > it seems to > me that the mutex protects only the association data; whereas the spinlock > protects more data, but > does include the association data.
Nope. The same way you could argue that the BKL should be taken here, as it's "the global kernel lock which protects everything". But it's simply not true and won't protect anything. ;) -- Greetings Michael. - 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
