From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: JBeulich@novell.com
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, jeffm@suse.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429.002530.112581952.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBA830A020000780003ED5D@vpn.id2.novell.com>
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:21:14 +0100
> Otherwise 'modprobe -r' on a module having a dependency on bridge will
> implicitly unload bridge, bringing down all connectivity that was using
> bridges.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
All network device drivers behave exactly the same way, when you rmmod
the thing we unconfigure all the routes, addresses, etc. going through
that device and let you unload it.
And this behavior is very much intentional.
Don't add an exception here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-29 7:21 [PATCH] bridge: Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed Jan Beulich
2011-04-29 7:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-04-29 7:41 ` Jan Beulich
2011-04-29 8:10 ` David Miller
2011-04-29 8:31 ` Jan Beulich
2011-04-29 8:44 ` David Miller
2011-04-29 9:09 ` Jan Beulich
2011-04-29 11:08 ` Michal Marek
2011-04-29 16:05 ` Jon Masters
2011-04-29 16:07 ` Jan Beulich
2011-04-29 16:20 ` Jon Masters
2011-04-29 15:34 ` Stephen Hemminger
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