netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] net: factorize sync-rcu call in unregister_netdevice

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Message-ID: <20101213153259.1bfedb15@nehalam>
Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:32:59 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>,
	Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@...edu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] net: factorize sync-rcu call in
 unregister_netdevice_many

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:54:53 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com> wrote:

> +		/*
> +		 *	Tell people we are going down, so that they can
> +		 *	prepare to death, when device is still operating.
> +		 */
> +		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev);

Never liked the repeated notifier. It was a dumb idea, there is
no reason to believe that repeatedly whacking a notifier is going
to make device get released.

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