Laszlo Attila Toth wrote, On 11/29/2007 05:11 PM:

> The do_setlink function is protected by rtnl, additional locks are 
> unnecessary,
> and the set_operstate() function is called from protected parts. Locks removed
> from both functions.

It doesn't look like in accordance with a comment to dev_base_lock in dev.c.
And it makes eg. rfc2863_policy() locking from link_watch.c looking strange.
Isn't there needed some additional comment to this?

Regards,
Jarek P.
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