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From: Moni Shoua <monisonlists@gmail.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
	OpenFabrics General <general@lists.openfabrics.org>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH V5 2/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before	doing unregister
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:55:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F61BF6.3000203@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaabrhgvfa.fsf@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > +		ipoib_slave_detach(cpriv->dev);
>  >  		unregister_netdev(cpriv->dev);
> 
> Maybe you already answered this before, but I'm still not clear why
> this notifier call can't just be added to the start of
> unregister_netdevice(), so we can avoid having driver needing to know
> anything about bonding internals?
> 
>  - R.

The action in bonding to a detach of slave is to unregister the master (see patch 10).
This can't be done from the context of unregister_netdevice itself (it is protected by rtnl_lock).

That's why I had to notify the detach before unregister begins.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-23  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 13:33 [PATCH V5 0/11] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:39 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V5 1/11] net/core: add a netdev notification for slave detach Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:40 ` [PATCH V5 2/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 16:20   ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2007-09-23  7:55     ` Moni Shoua [this message]
2007-09-23 16:34       ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-24 13:56         ` Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:41 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V5 3/11] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:42 ` [PATCH V5 4/11] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:43 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V5 5/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave non ARPHRD_ETHER Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:45 ` [PATCH V5 6/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave netdevices not supporting set_mac_address() Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 13:58 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V5 7/11] net/bonding: Enable IP multicast for bonding IPoIB devices Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 14:00 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH V5 8/11] net/bonding: Handlle wrong assumptions that slave is always an Ethernet device Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 14:02 ` [ofa-general] PATCH V5 9/11] net/bonding: Delay sending of gratuitous ARP to avoid failure Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 14:04 ` [PATCH V5 10/11] net/bonding: Destroy bonding master when last slave is gone Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 14:06 ` [PATCH V5 5/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave non ARPHRD_ETHER Moni Shoua
2007-09-20 14:07 ` [PATCH 11/11] bonding: Optionally allow ethernet slaves to keep own MAC Moni Shoua

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