Re: [PATCHv2] cfg/nl80211: send CMD_INTERFACE event on NETDEV_UNREGISTER

[Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>]

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:56:33PM -0700, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 01:24 +0200, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> > From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@open-mesh.com>
> > 
> > Userspace applications may be listening for events (e.g.
> > matching mgmt frame) on a given interface. If such interface
> > is deleted they would keep hanging because no event will be
> > delivered anymore.
> > 
> > Send a CMD_INTERFACE event on NETDEV_UNREGISTER to notify
> > userspace that the interface does not exist anymore.
> 
> This is too slippery a slope for me, I'm not going to apply this. You
> can listen to normal interface events in rtnetlink.

Mh, ok. Even if it is strange that an nl80211 socket does not get any
notification on interface deletion.
But yes, I'll listen for rtnl events. Thanks for the hint.

Cheers,

-- 
Antonio Quartulli

..each of us alone is worth nothing..
Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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