Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/8] netback: add module unload function

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 21:58 +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:00:03 +0000
> Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Enable users to unload netback module. Users should make sure there is not 
> > vif
> > runnig.
> 
> 
> Isn't it likely that some admin might be trying to cleanup or do shutdown and 
> there
> is an ordering problem. What happens if vif's are still running?
> 
> Why depend on users? You should allow it anytime and do refcounting and 
> auto-destroy the vif's for them.

Sure, we should not depend on users. I will move my vif get/put module
patch before this one.


Wei.


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