Re: [PATCH] fix outstanding ref's preventing ether driver unload

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

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:11:54 -0800
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:38:32 -0800
> "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Are you going to add such code to RAW, UDP, TCP, etc. etc.?
> 
> They don't have the problem because they don't go through the 
> netdev_queue_xmit_nit
> code path.  Audited all calls to dev_add_packet and AF_PACKET is the only
> one that I found that could potentially register for ptype_all.
> 
> The same thing could happen through the loopback device, though.
> But the loopback device can never be unloaded so it doesn't really
> hurt anything.

I see, thanks for the clarification.... I have an idea, let me think
about this a little bit more.