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| author | Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> | 2012-08-10 01:24:43 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-08-14 14:33:31 -0700 |
| commit | d30362c0712eb567334b3b66de7c40d4372f2c6f (patch) | |
| tree | 5c3951365ed935aaf0e3f745f19b7f0c2012190e | |
| parent | 2899656b494dcd118123af1126826b115c8ea6f9 (diff) | |
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bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE
Add comments on why we don't notify NETDEV_RELEASE.
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | 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); |
