On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:11:54 -0800
Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:38:32 -0800
"David S. Miller" [off-list ref] wrote:

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Are you going to add such code to RAW, UDP, TCP, etc. etc.?

They don't have the problem because they don't go through the netdev_queue_xmit_nit
code path.  Audited all calls to dev_add_packet and AF_PACKET is the only
one that I found that could potentially register for ptype_all.

The same thing could happen through the loopback device, though.
But the loopback device can never be unloaded so it doesn't really
hurt anything.

I see, thanks for the clarification.... I have an idea, let me think
about this a little bit more.