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| author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-07-15 19:26:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2022-07-29 18:19:07 +0300 |
| commit | 2686f62fa78ce4734e871af80161a602d22be843 (patch) | |
| tree | db5b3ccb8d9ec3dea523aa83f3216ef37a77a2d1 /net/core/rtnetlink.c | |
| parent | 7a99c7c32c85cd5239600533b77a34f884741fcc (diff) | |
| download | linux-2686f62fa78ce4734e871af80161a602d22be843.tar.xz | |
docs: net: explain struct net_device lifetime
commit 2b446e650b418f9a9e75f99852e2f2560cabfa17 upstream.
Explain the two basic flows of struct net_device's operation.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/rtnetlink.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 873081cda950..d8c82292413d 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -3444,7 +3444,7 @@ replay: if (ops->newlink) { err = ops->newlink(link_net ? : net, dev, tb, data, extack); - /* Drivers should call free_netdev() in ->destructor + /* Drivers should set dev->needs_free_netdev * and unregister it on failure after registration * so that device could be finally freed in rtnl_unlock. */ |