-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:09:06 -0700 "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote: >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 01:51:12 +0200 >"Angelo Dell'Aera" <buffer@antifork.org> wrote: > >> I agree with you but you should agree with me that removing a >> net driver while the NIC is generating traffic should be not >> possibile. > >No, I disagree. Doing this is fine, it means you no longer >want the device in the system. The ethernet drivers do the >right thing when you ask for this, rmmod ends up downing the >interfaces for you and once packet/socket/etc. references flush >out the module is unloaded cleanly. OK I agree with what you say but what I wanted to outline in my previous mail is that IMHO it's not normal that if I remove a net driver while the NIC is generating traffic the result is a kernel panic. I experienced it and Daniele (in CC) experienced it too on different NICs. - -- Angelo Dell'Aera Antifork Research, Inc. http://buffer.antifork.org PGP information in e-mail header -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/NEBPpONIzxnBXKIRAtOiAKCsOw6hECIqiziuUeDf5zcdSlR2/wCgj7Ip GZQW0Seu+yV+1DIX/Sbyw0A= =z0IB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
