linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: In unregister_netdevice

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Message-Id: <20120413.110505.1391379079973352104.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:05:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, ericvh@...il.com, davej@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	levinsasha928@...il.com, remi.denis-courmont@...ia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister
 the netdevices.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:33:35 -0700

>>>From a51fda849355b2ffb27cdb5d66fa1a96e7f47335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:39:52 -0800
> Subject: 

Yikes, I had to edit this turd out :-)  Otherwise with this empty
Subject, GIT uses the first line of your commit log body as the
first line.

> We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing
> events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for
> special case cleanup code.
> 
> This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers
> of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied.
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