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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2017 13:40:48 -0700
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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.