netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Teach vlans to cleanup as a pernet subsystem

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Message-Id: <20091202.221407.60533255.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:14:07 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Teach vlans to cleanup as a pernet subsystem

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:19:08 -0800

> 
> Take advantage of the fact that an explicit rtnl_kill_links is
> unnecessary (and skipping it improves batching), as network namespace
> exit calls dellink on all remaining virtual devices, and
> rtnl_link_unregister calls dellink on all outstanding devices in that
> network namespace.  To do this we need to leave the vlan proc
> directories in place until after network device exit time, which is
> done by using register_pernet_subsys instead of
> register_pernet_device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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