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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:40:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170612134048.21715cbd@plumbers-lap.home.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170609.145434.399590645965329804.davem@davemloft.net>

On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:54:34 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 10:21:04 -0700
> 
> > Is there anything in Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt about this to
> > avoid any future issues?  
> 
> You asked me about this last time, and I did not forget about it.
> 
> I sincerely lack the time to do a writeup about it, and I felt that
> delaying the fix for another week or two until I find that magical
> non-existing timeframe to write the docs was not beneficial for
> users at all.

I could take a stab at it, but my writing skills are not great.
We don't need to delay for Documentation, in fact it is easier to write after
the cleanup.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-06-12 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-07 19:54 [PATCH] net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state David Miller
2017-06-09 12:45 ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-09 14:17   ` David Miller
2017-06-09 14:33     ` Johannes Berg
2017-06-09 17:14       ` David Miller
2017-06-09 17:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-06-09 18:54   ` David Miller
2017-06-12 20:40     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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