netdev - Re: [PATCH 01/14] brcmfmac: add delay before unregistering the network device

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 12:48:08 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
Cc:	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] brcmfmac: add delay before unregistering the
 network device

On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 12:34 +0100, Arend van Spriel wrote:

> > I'm not sure this isn't still possible? I don't know when DELLINK is
> > sent.
> 
> Given the behaviour I would say before the netdev notifier, which may be
> considered wrong. It depends whether the notifier was intended for the
> kind of thing that cfg80211 is doing, ie. send a netlink event to
> user-space?

Well, I checked:

                call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);

                if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops ||
                    dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
                        rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, GFP_KERNEL);

so ... :)

johannes

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