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From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] xen-netback: handle
 frontends that fail to transition through Closing
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:14:31 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:57:40PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Some old Windows frontends fail to transition through the xenbus Closing
> state and move directly from Connected to Closed. Handle this case properly.

What happens in this case? Are there other state changes that will do
unwanted things?

Bastian

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