On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:09:19AM -0400, jamal wrote: > > > 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?
It doesn't matter as long as the packet makes it to the qdiscs or the transmit ring. It's the cases when it doesn't that we may have problems with dev going away. -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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
