netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: dev: deinit list in unregister_netdevice

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:12:26 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dev: deinit list in unregister_netdevice_many

On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 14:59 +0800, Gao feng wrote:
> commit ceaaec98ad99859ac90ac6863ad0a6cd075d8e0e
> "net: deinit automatic LIST_HEAD"  has already done
> part of the deinit list jobs.
> 
> This patch push list_del into unregister_netdevice_many
> to make sure the unreg_list of netdevice object has valid
> pointer always.
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> ---

I totally Nack this patch.

1) net-next is not open.

2) We spent enough time chasing bugs, I don't want to reintroduce new
ones.

And this patch introduce nice bugs. No thank you.

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