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From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE
Date: Mon,  6 Aug 2012 22:23:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1344263012-4031-8-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344263012-4031-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>

Add comments on why we don't notify NETDEV_RELEASE.

Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_if.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 171fd6b..910f4aa 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -427,6 +427,10 @@ int br_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
 	if (!p || p->br != br)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/*
+	 * We don't notify NETDEV_RELEASE event, as this will
+	 * stop netconsole on the bridge.
+	 */
 	del_nbp(p);
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
-- 
1.7.7.6

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-06 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-06 14:23 [PATCH v2 0/8] some netpoll and netconsole fixes Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 1/8] netpoll: use GFP_ATOMIC in slave_enable_netpoll() and __netpoll_setup() Cong Wang
2012-08-06 15:20   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-08-07  2:28     ` Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 2/8] netpoll: make __netpoll_cleanup non-block Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 3/8] netconsole: do not release spin_lock when calling __netpoll_cleanup Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 4/8] netpoll: take rcu_read_lock_bh() in netpoll_rx() Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 5/8] netpoll: use netpoll_rx_on() " Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 6/8] netpoll: take rcu_read_lock_bh() in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-08-06 20:50   ` [PATCH 7/8] bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE David Miller
2012-08-06 23:39     ` Joe Perches
2012-08-10 10:59       ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-08-10 11:13         ` Joe Perches
2012-08-07  2:27     ` Cong Wang
2012-08-07  5:59     ` [Resend PATCH " Cong Wang
2012-08-07  7:10       ` David Miller
2012-08-07 15:13         ` Cong Wang
2012-08-06 14:23 ` [PATCH 8/8] bridge: use list_for_each_entry() in netpoll functions Cong Wang
2012-08-11 18:07   ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-08-07  6:58 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] some netpoll and netconsole fixes Cong Wang

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