netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netns: call ops_free right after ops

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Message-Id: <20100425.025902.94572342.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 2010 02:59:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] netns: call ops_free right after ops_exit

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:26:01 +0200

> There's no need to iterate this twice. We can free net generic
> variables right after exit is called.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

Are you sure there are no problems with doing this?

What if there are inter-net variable reference dependencies
or something like that?

I really suspect it is being done this way on purpose, but
in the end I defer to experts like Eric B. :-)
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