David Miller wrote:
From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:27:25 -0700
So, the question is: Should I be calling unregister_netdev from the
notifier callback?
Not really, as you saw it can be deadlock prone.
One idea is to run the unregister asynchronously via a workqueue.
That should be able to get you out of the deadlock.
After more poking, I notice that 802.1q uses unregister_netdevice,
which does not grab rtnl. It seems that the notifiers are always called
with rtnl asserted. That would be a recursive call to unregister_netdevice,
however...any reason that won't work?
Ben
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