netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: Flush all skbs related to an unregistered device

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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 17:02:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	baptiste@...sta.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fruggeri@...sta.com, mowat@...sta.com,
	adrien+dev@...ischi.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] net: Flush all skbs related to an
 unregistered device

From: Baptiste Covolato <baptiste@...sta.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 16:24:51 -0700

> Update flush_backlog to flush all packets in the backlog queue belonging
> to a device being unregistered. Accordingly on_each_cpu no longer needs
> to pass a device to flush_backlog since it handles any device in the
> NETREG_UNREGISTERED state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baptiste Covolato <baptiste@...sta.com>
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...sta.com>

This is quite bogus if you ask me.

This is the one spot causing a device to make the transition
to unregistered state, so passing that specific device to
flush_backlog() is the completely logical way to handle this.

If this is some hack that is made necessary by your parallel
notification scheme, I do not find it acceptable.

I'm not applying this series, sorry.
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