Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:28:02 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH][ATM] use rtnl_{lock,unlock} during device operations (take 2) | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:26:16 -0300
David S. Miller wrote: > But regardless I should be able to yank an ATM device out of the > kernel (unregistering it) even if there are a thousand VCC's attached > to it. Why ? A VCC is more like a network interface than a TCP connection. It's more like an IP tunnel and a route, granted. And those are similarly configured, and to me the same rules apply. Removing an ATM device while there are open VCCs isn't a lot more useful than removing a telephone while there is still a call in progress :-) It's like rmmod'ing TCP while you have TCP connections. And it's like unregistering IP tunnels while you still have routes going over them, the routes just get deleted.
And frankly I see absolutely NOTHING wrong with doing these sorts of things. - 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/
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