Re: Question on device events and unregister_netdev.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2006-07-11 23:42:43
From: Ben Greear <redacted> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:27:25 -0700
So, the question is: Should I be calling unregister_netdev from the notifier callback?
Not really, as you saw it can be deadlock prone. One idea is to run the unregister asynchronously via a workqueue. That should be able to get you out of the deadlock.