From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:53:55 +0300
> Some handers and strategies of devinet sysctl tables need > to know the net to propagate the ctl change to all the > net devices. > > I use the (currently unused) extra2 pointer on the tables > to get it. > > Holding the reference on the struct net is not possible, > because otherwise we'll get a net->ctl_table->net circular > dependency. But since the ctl tables are unregistered during > the net destruction, this is safe to get it w/o additional > protection. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. -- 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
