On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:37:18PM +0200, Alexander Indenbaum wrote: > In my understanding unregister_netdev(), in case netdev is still IFF_UP and > holds irq, will call dev_close() which will call netdev->stop(), bdx_close() > in our case. bdx_close() releases all netdev resources among others calls > free_irq(). > > That's why I'm pretty sure that we do not hold any reference to netdev after > unregister_netdev() finishes and we can free_netdev() without any worry :) > > What do you think, does it still look fishy?
Ok, so you do irq acquire/release in open/close so that bit is fine. The code might actually work as is, sorry for the noise. - 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
