Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:21:16 +0600 | From | "Alexander E. Patrakov" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 05/22] : Fix hotplug race during device registration |
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Chris Rankin wrote: > With reference to this patch: > http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;h=2731570eba5b35a21c311dd587057c39805082f1;hp=dfb62998866ae2e298139164a85ec0757b7f3fc7;hb=9469d458b90bfb9117cbb488cfa645d94c3921b1;f=net/core/dev.c > > Doesn't this patch introduce another bug when registration fails, because reg_state is left as > NETREG_REGISTERED?
Look at the old code again. This is not a new bug. The old code fails registration, does a printk, and then sets dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED. So this doesn't revoke my signed-off-by line.
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