From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754196Ab0GKOVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:21:06 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:38260 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752319Ab0GKOU7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:20:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:16:14 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Michael Leun Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NET_NS: unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free (after using openvpn) (was Re: sysfs bug when using tun with network namespaces) Message-ID: <20100711141614.GC30015@kroah.com> References: <20100709235744.GA12752@kroah.com> <20100710101540.2799c9ef@xenia.leun.net> <20100710140800.GA20424@kroah.com> <20100710165208.59272ae6@xenia.leun.net> <20100710235323.5336f627@xenia.leun.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100710235323.5336f627@xenia.leun.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:53:23PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote: > But: should'nt kernel clean up after process when it exits? > And/or: Should'nt kernel clean up if last process in network namespace > exits - there is nothing left which might use that interface?! Yes, you are correct. Care to resend all of this to the network-namespace developer(s) and the netdev mailing list so that the correct people are notified so they can fix it all? thanks, greg k-h