On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 13:18 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > + if (state == NETDEV_UNREGISTER) > > > + wireless_nlevent_flush(); > > > > > It could be argued that the state check isn't really necessary and > > should be removed to avoid ordering issues with up/down vs. wext, > > but > > this fixes the really strange issue where you get an RTM_NEWLINK > > after > > RTM_DELLINK (with the same ifidx), and I don't see how any software > > would care much about the ordering otherwise. > > > > Actually though, with the fix I still get: > > 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group > default > link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> > link/ether > Deleted 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state > DOWN group default > link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > which is clearly odd (see the UP flag), so I'll change it. > Doesn't help, since the wext netdev notifier is registered earlier and thus runs earlier than the cfg80211 one that triggers the action ... I'll fix that differently then. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html