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SubjectRe: why network devices don't do reference counting? (Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed)

On Sep 27 2007 07:51, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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>You need every socket to close and all routes to go away including the
>routes through loopback device, and still there probably are control
>sockets buried inside ipv6 that hold ref count.
>
>IMHO the kernel should just admit that IPV6 can't be removed.

I cannot accept that. If ipv6.ko has a way to tack ipv6 structs onto all
sockets, interfaces and addresses, it should also be able to untack it
again.
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