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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dummy: Add ndo_uninit().
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:57:00 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:26:01 +0900

> In register_netdevice(), when ndo_init() is successful and later
> some error occurred, ndo_uninit() will be called.
> So dummy deivce is desirable to implement ndo_uninit() method
> to free percpu stats for this case.
> And, ndo_uninit() is also called along with dev->destructor() when
> device is unregistered, so in order to prevent dev->dstats from
> being freed twice, dev->destructor is modified to free_netdev().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hiroaki SHIMODA <shimoda.hiroaki@gmail.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.