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Date:	Wed, 04 May 2016 11:59:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	idosch@...lanox.com, eladr@...lanox.com, yotamg@...lanox.com,
	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, shm@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next] vrf: add exit function and allow module unload

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 12:24:55 +0200

> Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:23:42PM CEST, hannes@...essinduktion.org wrote:
>>Hello Jiri,
>>
>>On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 12:20, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>  drivers/net/vrf.c | 7 +++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vrf.c b/drivers/net/vrf.c
>>> index 8a8f1e5..b217c2d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/vrf.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c
>>> @@ -839,7 +839,14 @@ error:
>>>  	return rc;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +static void __exit vrf_exit_module(void)
>>> +{
>>> +       rtnl_link_unregister(&vrf_link_ops);
>>> +       unregister_netdevice_notifier(&vrf_notifier_block);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  module_init(vrf_init_module);
>>> +module_exit(vrf_exit_module);
>>
>>The dst_entries created by vrf don't carry a reference to THIS_MODULE
>>but have a code dependency to the vrf module (e.g. via
>>vrf_output/vrf_output6) that gets published. This is exactly the same
>>why ipv6 cannot be unloaded.
> 
> Oh. Okay. Thanks!

So I'm dropping this.