Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:23:42PM CEST, han...@stressinduktion.org wrote:
>Hello Jiri,
>
>On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 12:20, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> drivers/net/vrf.c | 7 +++++++
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/vrf.c b/drivers/net/vrf.c
>> index 8a8f1e5..b217c2d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/vrf.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/vrf.c
>> @@ -839,7 +839,14 @@ error:
>> return rc;
>> }
>>
>> +static void __exit vrf_exit_module(void)
>> +{
>> + rtnl_link_unregister(&vrf_link_ops);
>> + unregister_netdevice_notifier(&vrf_notifier_block);
>> +}
>> +
>> module_init(vrf_init_module);
>> +module_exit(vrf_exit_module);
>
>The dst_entries created by vrf don't carry a reference to THIS_MODULE
>but have a code dependency to the vrf module (e.g. via
>vrf_output/vrf_output6) that gets published. This is exactly the same
>why ipv6 cannot be unloaded.
Oh. Okay. Thanks!
