On Tue, 2005-26-07 at 21:54 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But how can this possibly work for skb->dst'less packets (such as IPV4 > > ARP generated frames)? > > I think the answer is that it works by accident.
But does it matter really? If say we close down the device, do we want to be stopped from closing it until all the packets have been transmitted? We purge the qdiscs iirc already on close, so why not the transmit ring? cheers, jamal PS:- Dave, I think all this holding refcount thing on the input_dev is complicating things. Lets just use the ifindex and forget about refcounting; worst is we will end up failing some classification somewhere - which if somebody really cares about they will have some policy daemon listening to things and fixing the ifindices in the kernel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
