From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:54:06 -0800

> What do you think about having no ref counting, and upon removal of
> a network device, we notify each logic unit that deals with skbs
> or other things that link to the netdev and ask it to clean all
> references to the NIC in question?

That's a lot of notifiers.  Routes and neighbour cache entries are
relatively easy, and we do that today, but sockets and netfilter
can get really messy.
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