[PATCH 07/15] bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE
From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2012-08-10 11:25:38
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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