From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.70] Add release_netdev -- hook for sysfs/net device cleanup Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 02:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030607.020528.68152135.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030606145835.3a263df8.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Return-path: To: shemminger@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <20030606145835.3a263df8.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:58:35 -0700 Phase I: introduces release_netdev which is the hook to allow later changes to hold onto the net device after the device has potentially unloaded. Includes patch for the easy to fix devices. Besides naming (thought this was going to be named netdev_drop) I have no problems. Al?