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

[Eric Dumazet]

On Thu, 2016-04-14 at 16:44 +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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?

This is the expected behavior.

If the kernel was suddenly doing a 'replace' when you ask a delete,
then the scripts doing a delete , than a add would break.

tc users are skilled admins ;)