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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netns: add	register_pernet_gen_subsys/unregister_pernet_gen_subsys
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:09:15 +0100
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To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> netns ops which are registered with register_pernet_gen_device() are
> shutdown strictly before those which are registered with
> register_pernet_subsys(). Sometimes this leads to opposite (read: buggy)
> shutdown ordering between two modules.
> 
> Add register_pernet_gen_subsys()/unregister_pernet_gen_subsys() for modules
> which aren't elite enough for entry in struct net, and which can't use
> register_pernet_gen_device(). PPTP conntracking module is such one.

Applied, thanks.