Re: dev->destructor

In message [ref] you write:

   From: Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref]
   Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:08:20 -0700

   On Sat, 03 May 2003 14:07:41 +1000
   Rusty Russell [off-list ref] wrote:
   
   > But Alexey said you can only call unregister_netdev from module
   > unload, ie. if not a module, it can't be unloaded, hence no refcount
   > needed.  I wrote the above paragraph because I'm not sure if I
   > understood Alexey correctly?

   There are several flavors of pseudo-network devices like bridging
   and VLAN that dynamically create/destroy netdev's even when they
   are not modules.

I think you'll understand what Alexey/Rusty are saying better
if you consider statically compiled kernel code as a module with
an implicit non-zero reference count :-)

Yes, but his point is valid.  We *do* want to destroy netdev's at
random times, not just from module cleanup code.  Hotplug, for
example.

So me saying "just rely on the owner refcnt" was wrong.

Rusty.
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