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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: introduce NETDEV_UNREGISTER_PERNET
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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:49:35 +0200

> This new event is called once for each unique net namespace in batched
> unregister operations (with the argument set to a random device from
> that namespace) and once per device in non-batched unregister
> operations.
> 
> It allows us to factorize some device unregister work such as clearing the
> routing cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6