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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, shemminger@osdl.org,
	irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:21:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030818022131.311583f6.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308180959150.3006-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:48:28 +0200 (CEST)
Martin Diehl <lists@mdiehl.de> wrote:

> So the question arises what to do if 
> some stack (say irda ;-) *wants* to lock the driver providing the netdev 
> while registered?

You can't, you have to interlock with netdevice removal
and also capture NETDEV_GOING_DOWN events to properly
handle when netdevices disappear.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-18  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-15 22:46 [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-15 23:05 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-16 12:20   ` David S. Miller
2003-08-17  0:14     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-17  0:58       ` David S. Miller
2003-08-17  1:11         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-17  1:09           ` David S. Miller
2003-08-17  1:36             ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-18 16:03           ` Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-18 16:50             ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-18 16:53               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 17:08                 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-19  0:07                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 22:58                     ` [PATCH] kill old irtty Stephen Hemminger
2003-08-20  4:02                       ` David S. Miller
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308171335050.1409-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>
2003-08-18  5:18           ` [PATCH] (1/5) get rid of useless hashbin in irtty David S. Miller
     [not found]             ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308180959150.3006-100000@notebook.home.mdiehl.de>
2003-08-18  9:21               ` David S. Miller [this message]

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