From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:33:39 -0700 Message-ID: References: <11898132301664-git-send-email-fubar@us.ibm.com> <11898132322950-git-send-email-fubar@us.ibm.com> <1189813234208-git-send-email-fubar@us.ibm.com> <18593.1190071438@death> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, monis@voltaire.com, monisonlists@gmail.com, ogerlitz@voltaire.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, davem@davemloft.net, general@lists.openfabrics.org To: Jay Vosburgh Return-path: Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:59364 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755064AbXIQXdr (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:33:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <18593.1190071438@death> (Jay Vosburgh's message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:23:58 -0700") Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > Conceptually, I see your point and I'm ok with doing it either > way. My only question is, would this change would make the ipoib module > dependent upon having the bonding module loaded (to resolve all of the > symbols)? Yes, I guess so, if that function is in bonding. Hmm, that wouldn't be a good change. Maybe this new notification function should be in net/core/dev.c instead of exporting call_netdevice_notifiers()? - R.