Re: net interface renaming issue (+fix?)

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:00:49 +0400,
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:

> net/core/dev.c:netdev_run_todo():
>                         err = netdev_register_sysfs(dev);
>                         if (err)
>                                 printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed sysfs
> registration (%d)\n",
>                                        dev->name, err);
>                         dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED;
>                         break;
> 
> So basically there is a window between net device appearing in sysfs
> and 'address' returning usable value. To test you could move
> dev->reg_state assignment before netdev_register_sysfs call; if this
> helps it makes sense ask on net list if this is safe change.

As far as i can test, yes, it works fine.  I will forward your
suggestion to -netdev@.

Btw, many thanks to both of you, Andrey and Sergey, for the fast
answers and crystal-clear explanations of the actual issue.

-- 
TGL.


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