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Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:09:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] net: driver: stmicro: Remove some useless the lock
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From: <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 19:05:03 +0800

> From: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>
> 
> kernel always invokes a pair of rtnl_lock adn rtnl_unlock to
> protect dev_ethtool(), so its not neccessary to invoke spin_lock/unlock
> in ethtool_ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yang Wei <Wei.Yang@windriver.com>

This does not apply cleanly to the net-next tree, please respin.