netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] vlan: avoid a synchronize

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Date:	Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:00:31 -0700
From:	Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...sta.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] vlan: avoid a synchronize_net when parent device
 goes down

Hi David,

Thanks for pointing to the right direction. Is there a reason the vlan
driver was calling
dev_change_flags instead of dev_close to close the vlan device?

Thanks,

Salam


>
> Please let's implement this properly.  VLAN is not the only case
> that would benefit from something like this.
>
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