From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: JBeulich@novell.com, 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 08:34:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110429083418.1ce9415c@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110429.002530.112581952.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:25:30 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 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.
Agreed.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-29 15:34 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
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 [this message]
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