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=46rom: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 11:17:57 +0200

> veth devices dont use the batched device unregisters yet.
>=20
> Since veth are a pair of devices, it makes sense to use a batch of tw=
o
> unregisters, this roughly divides dismantle time by two.
>=20
> Fix this by changing dellink() callers to always provide a non NULL
> head. (Idea from Micha=A9=A9 Miros=A9=A9aw)
>=20
> This patch also handles macvlan case : We now dismantle all macvlans =
on
> top of a lower dev at once.
>=20
> Reported-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.