Re: [PATCH] Move inetdev/ifa over to RCU

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 10:34:28 +1000
Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

BTW, it looks like you can remove inetdev_lock altogether.  All its
users already assume that they don't race against each other by
taking the rtnl lock.

I think it's needed at least for the:

	dev->ip_ptr = idev;
	in_dev_get(idev);

thing, isn't it?