The patch titled bonding: release slaves when master removed via sysfs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bonding-release-slaves-when-master-removed-via-sysfs.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: bonding: release slaves when master removed via sysfs From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx> Add a call to bond_release_all in the bonding netdev event handler for the master. This releases the slaves for the case of, e.g., "echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters", which otherwise will spin forever waiting for references to be released. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-release-slaves-when-master-removed-via-sysfs drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c~bonding-release-slaves-when-master-removed-via-sysfs +++ a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -3401,9 +3401,7 @@ static int bond_master_netdev_event(unsi case NETDEV_CHANGENAME: return bond_event_changename(event_bond); case NETDEV_UNREGISTER: - /* - * TODO: remove a bond from the list? - */ + bond_release_all(event_bond->dev); break; default: break; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fubar@xxxxxxxxxx are git-netdev-all.patch bonding-fix-locking-in-sysfs-primary-active-selection.patch bonding-fix-assert_rtnl-that-produces-spurious-warnings.patch bonding-fix-locking-during-alb-failover-and-slave-removal.patch bonding-release-slaves-when-master-removed-via-sysfs.patch bonding-fix-up-parameter-parsing.patch bonding-fix-lock-ordering-for-rtnl-and-bonding_rwsem.patch bonding-dont-hold-lock-when-calling-rtnl_unlock.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html