netdev - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] xen-netback: handle frontends that fail to transition through Closing

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Message-ID: <20130920161431.GA19095@mail.waldi.eu.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:14:31 +0200
From:	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
To:	Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xen.org,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] xen-netback: handle
 frontends that fail to transition through Closing

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:57:40PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Some old Windows frontends fail to transition through the xenbus Closing
> state and move directly from Connected to Closed. Handle this case properly.

What happens in this case? Are there other state changes that will do
unwanted things?

Bastian

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