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| author | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2011-01-31 04:17:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> | 2011-01-31 04:17:03 +0000 |
| commit | 58b8a5b45a097b477c037bc376e65dc5f214bf3d (patch) | |
| tree | 9fa2538a113fbd3aaa322d9c972aca3ca16b7e30 /net/core/dev.c | |
| parent | ffeb414a59291d5891f09727beb793c109f19f08 (diff) | |
| parent | 70d1f365568e0cdbc9f4ab92428e1830fdb09ab0 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/dev.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 7c6a46f80372..24ea2d71e7ea 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -749,7 +749,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_index); * @ha: hardware address * * Search for an interface by MAC address. Returns NULL if the device - * is not found or a pointer to the device. The caller must hold RCU + * is not found or a pointer to the device. + * The caller must hold RCU or RTNL. * The returned device has not had its ref count increased * and the caller must therefore be careful about locking * |