Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753973Ab2E0AN7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2012 20:13:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:63342 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751737Ab2E0AN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2012 20:13:57 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 09:13:49 +0900 From: Greg KH To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Eric W. Biederman" , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [ 13/54] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices. Message-ID: <20120527001349.GI14234@kroah.com> References: <20120518212656.GA4992@kroah.com> <20120518211600.656454343@linuxfoundation.org> <20120521173509.GA2919@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120521173509.GA2919@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1438 Lines: 38 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:35:12PM -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:16:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > > > From: "Eric W. Biederman" > > > > [ Upstream commit 7d3d43dab4e978d8d9ad1acf8af15c9b1c4b0f0f ] > > > > We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing > > events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for > > special case cleanup code. > > > > This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers > > of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle. > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Please also include these two commits in addition to this change, to > avoid a regression with pktgen: > commit c57b54684060c8aced64a5b78ff69ff289af97b9 > commit d4b1133558e0d417342d5d2c49e4c35b428ff20d I need an ack from the network maintainers for me to be able to accept this. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/