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[PATCH 07/14] bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE

From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-10 07:11:11
Subsystem: ethernet bridge, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: Nikolay Aleksandrov, Ido Schimmel, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Add comments on why we don't notify NETDEV_RELEASE.

Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>
---
 net/bridge/br_if.c |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
index 171fd6b..1c8fdc3 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
@@ -427,6 +427,10 @@ int br_del_if(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_device *dev)
 	if (!p || p->br != br)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* Since more than one interface can be attached to a bridge,
+	 * there still maybe an alternate path for netconsole to use;
+	 * therefore there is no reason for a NETDEV_RELEASE event.
+	 */
 	del_nbp(p);
 
 	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
-- 
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