netdev - Re: [PATCH] Remove notifier block from chain when register_netdevice

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Message-ID: <20071114135055.GA14982@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:50:55 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove notifier block from chain when register_netdevice_notifier fails

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:47:24PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>
> BTW, I have one more question I can't find the answer to by 
> myself. Why the unregister_netdevice_notifier doesn't produce 
> the GOING_DOWN-DOWN-UNREGISTER event sequence for the notifier
> block which is being unregistered? Was this made deliberately?

I think it's more of an oversight :)

Although it has no real impact because the only user that matters
here is IPv6 and it can't be unloaded.

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