netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] llc2: Call llc_station_exit() on llc2

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Date:	Wed, 15 Aug 2012 05:06:33 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] llc2: Call llc_station_exit() on llc2_init()
 failure path

On Tue, 2012-08-14 at 16:52 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:50:43 +0100
> 
> > Otherwise the station packet handler will remain registered even though
> > the module is unloaded.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> 
> This will cause section mismatch errors, you'll need to remove
> the __exit tag from llc_station_exit() if you want to start
> invoking it from llc2_init() which is __init.
> 
> I took care of this when applying this patch to 'net'.

Thanks, David.

llc_station.c turns out to be mostly dead code, and I have some more
radical changes to remove that which I'll send after you next merge net
into net-next.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

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