Re: dev->destructor

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>]

   From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
   Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 09:08:20 -0700

   On Sat, 03 May 2003 14:07:41 +1000
   Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
   
   > But Alexey said you can only call unregister_netdev from module
   > unload, ie. if not a module, it can't be unloaded, hence no refcount
   > needed.  I wrote the above paragraph because I'm not sure if I
   > understood Alexey correctly?

   There are several flavors of pseudo-network devices like bridging
   and VLAN that dynamically create/destroy netdev's even when they
   are not modules.

I think you'll understand what Alexey/Rusty are saying better
if you consider statically compiled kernel code as a module with
an implicit non-zero reference count :-)