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

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Message-Id: <20150309.152211.2300226482423280727.davem@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:22:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	noureddine@...sta.com
Cc:	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

From: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...sta.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:00:31 -0700

> 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?

Perhaps dev_close() was not exported at the time the code was written,
I honestly have no idea.
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