[Devel] Re: [PATCH] Remove notifier block from chain when register_netdevice_notifier fails

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 04:47:24PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>
> BTW, I have one more question I can't find the answer to by 
> myself. Why the unregister_netdevice_notifier doesn't produce 
> the GOING_DOWN-DOWN-UNREGISTER event sequence for the notifier
> block which is being unregistered? Was this made deliberately?

I think it's more of an oversight :)

Although it has no real impact because the only user that matters
here is IPv6 and it can't be unloaded.

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