From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH V5 2/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:20:57 -0700 Message-ID: References: <46F27692.3070404@voltaire.com> <46F2784C.9070806@voltaire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jay Vosburgh , OpenFabrics General To: Moni Shoua Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46F2784C.9070806@voltaire.com> (Moni Shoua's message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:40:28 +0300") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org Errors-To: general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > + ipoib_slave_detach(cpriv->dev); > unregister_netdev(cpriv->dev); Maybe you already answered this before, but I'm still not clear why this notifier call can't just be added to the start of unregister_netdevice(), so we can avoid having driver needing to know anything about bonding internals? - R.