On Monday 10 August 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:

macvlan will remove all macvlan/vtap devices when the underlying
device in unregistered, at which time you need to release the
device references you're holding. I'd suggest to change the
macvlan_device_event() handler to use

vlan->dev->rtnl_link_ops->dellink(vlan->dev)

instead of macvlan_dellink() so the macvtap_dellink callback
is invoked.

Ok, will do that. Thanks,

	Arnd <><