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From: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]ipv6:fix an oops when force unload ipv6 module
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:41:55 +0800
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:17:01 +0800
> Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I do an ipv6 module force unload,I got the following oops:
>> #rmmod -f ipv6
>>
> 
> Okay, but force unloading IPV6 leaves some dangling control
> sockets that will crash in other ways.
> 

Yes,but if we make sure that there is no other services and modules
using IPV6,it can be force unloaded without causing other problems.

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Regards
Yang Hongyang