netdev - Re: [PATCH]ipv6:fix an oops when force unload ipv6 module

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:41:55 +0800
From:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ipv6:fix an oops when force unload ipv6 module

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:17:01 +0800
> Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I do an ipv6 module force unload,I got the following oops:
>> #rmmod -f ipv6
>>
> 
> Okay, but force unloading IPV6 leaves some dangling control
> sockets that will crash in other ways.
> 

Yes,but if we make sure that there is no other services and modules
using IPV6,it can be force unloaded without causing other problems.

-- 
Regards
Yang Hongyang
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