[ofa-general] Re: IB/ipoib: Fix neigh destructor oops for kernels older than 2.6.21

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed May 14 06:40:12 PDT 2008


Eli Cohen wrote:
> I add to the thread the author of the commit. I don't know this code
> good enough to give an explanation but for kernels following this commit
> I don't get these failures. Perhaps someone else can comment on this.
>
Even before understanding what Alexy's patch is doing, can you explain 
why the ipoib neighbour destructor callback is called after the ipoib 
module has been unloaded? is it b/c the stack did this call on a 
neighbour created by another device such as loopack etc?

Or.





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