From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_pppox: create module infrastructure for protocol modules Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 02:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030501.022040.15235711.davem@redhat.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030429123317.10d71178@unixmail.qualcomm.com> <20030429.192931.104061911.davem@redhat.com> <1051726260.13512.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: acme@conectiva.com.br, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: maxk@qualcomm.com In-Reply-To: <1051726260.13512.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Max Krasnyansky Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:11:37 -0700 And like I said before if protocol wants for some reason to be around until sk is destroyed it will simply do sk_set_owner() right after alloc_sk(). Ok Maxim, thanks for your comments and insight. I believe this whole discussion is going to take a different course towards a solution, different than anything discussed in this thread so far. Please follow the discussion with topic "dev->destructor" on this list (netdev) to see precisely what I am talking about.