Re: Scalability of interface creation and deletion

--On 7 May 2011 20:45:07 -0700 Ben Greear [off-list ref] wrote:

Well, I'd hope to get a netlink message about the device being deleted,
and
after that, be able to create another one with the same name, etc.

Whether the memory is actually freed in the kernel or not wouldn't matter
to me...

Provided the former para is always done, I can't actually think of a case
where the caller would /ever/ care about the latter (save perhaps
a final shutdown of the whole net subsystem).

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Alex Bligh