netdev - Re: [PATCH V5 2/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister

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Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:20:57 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Moni Shoua <monis@...taire.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
	OpenFabrics General <general@...ts.openfabrics.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 2/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister

 > +		ipoib_slave_detach(cpriv->dev);
 >  		unregister_netdev(cpriv->dev);

Maybe you already answered this before, but I'm still not clear why
this notifier call can't just be added to the start of
unregister_netdevice(), so we can avoid having driver needing to know
anything about bonding internals?

 - R.
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