Re: [PATCH] (0/8) replace brlock with RCU

[Linus Torvalds]

On 11 Mar 2003, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 
> The following sequence of patches replaces the remaining use of brlock
> with RCU.  Most of this is fairly straightforward. The unregister functions
> use synchronize_kernel(), perhaps there should be a special version to
> indicate sychronizing with network BH. 
>
> Comments?

I'm not going to take this directly, but if it passes muster with David, 
I'm happy.  The fewer locking primitives we need, the better, and brlocks 
have had enough problems that I wouldn't mind getting rid of them.

		Linus