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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] net: factorize sync-rcu call in
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:32:59 -0800
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:54:53 +0200
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> wrote:

> +		/*
> +		 *	Tell people we are going down, so that they can
> +		 *	prepare to death, when device is still operating.
> +		 */
> +		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev);

Never liked the repeated notifier. It was a dumb idea, there is
no reason to believe that repeatedly whacking a notifier is going
to make device get released.

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