Return-path: Received: from mail-qa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.216.54]:37837 "EHLO mail-qa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966455Ab3HHXS2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Aug 2013 19:18:28 -0400 Received: by mail-qa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id bv4so623882qab.13 for ; Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:18:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1376003573-1243-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> References: <1376003573-1243-1-git-send-email-ordex@autistici.org> From: Julian Calaby Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:18:07 +1000 Message-ID: (sfid-20130809_011841_993338_5A3B91B4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg/nl80211: send CMD_INTERFACE event on NETDEV_UNREGISTER To: Antonio Quartulli Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-wireless , Antonio Quartulli Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Antonio, On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > From: Antonio Quartulli > > Userspace applications may be listening for events (e.g. > matching mgmt frame) on a given interface. If such interface > is deleted they would keep hanging because no event will be > delivered anymore. > > Send a CMD_INTERFACE event on NETDEV_UNREGISTER to notify > userspace that the interface does not exist anymore. > > Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli > --- > net/wireless/Module.symvers | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I'm pretty sure you didn't mean to include this file =) Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/