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Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:42:57 -0700
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 > Maybe this new notification function should be in net/core/dev.c
 > instead of exporting call_netdevice_notifiers()?

Or actually, does it work to add the call to the notifiers directly in
unregister_netdev() so that device drivers don't have to worry about it?

(And is the existing patch missing a call to notifiers in ipoib_vlan_delete()?)

 - R.