Deleting child qdisc doesn't reset parent to default qdisc?

[Jiri Kosina]

Hi,

I've came across the behavior where adding a child qdisc and then deleting 
it again makes the networking dysfunctional (I guess that's because all of 
a sudden there is absolutely no working qdisc on the device, although 
there originally was a default one in the parent).

In a nutshell, is this expected behavior or bug?

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jikos:~ # tc qdisc show
qdisc tbf 10: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 rate 800Mbit burst 131000b lat 1.0ms 
jikos:~ # ping -c 1 nix.cz | head -2
PING nix.cz (195.47.235.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from info.nix.cz (195.47.235.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=89 time=1.59 ms

jikos:~ # tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 10:1 sfq
jikos:~ # tc qdisc show
qdisc tbf 10: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 rate 800Mbit burst 131000b lat 1.0ms 
qdisc sfq 8008: dev eth0 parent 10:1 limit 127p quantum 1514b depth 127 divisor 1024 

jikos:~ # ping -c 1 nix.cz | head -2
PING nix.cz (195.47.235.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from info.nix.cz (195.47.235.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=89 time=1.67 ms

jikos:~ # tc qdisc del dev eth0 parent 10:1 sfq
jikos:~ # tc qdisc show
qdisc tbf 10: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 rate 800Mbit burst 131000b lat 1.0ms 
jikos:~ # ping -c 1 nix.cz | head -2
PING nix.cz (195.47.235.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
	[ ... nothing happens ... ]
^C
jikos:~ # tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 10:1 sfq
jikos:~ # ping -c 1 nix.cz | head -2
PING nix.cz (195.47.235.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from info.nix.cz (195.47.235.3): icmp_seq=1 ttl=89 time=1.66 ms
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Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina