From: Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-velocity: earlier name allocation
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:29:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <490027DE.3000409@svenhartge.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081022170422.7851ea9a@extreme>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> NAK
>
> There is nothing to prevent that device name from being allocated by another device
> at that point. The correct fix is to not use dev->name until after registering
> the network device. Change the order of registration or pass dev_driver_string(&pdev->dev)
> instead of dev->name to velocity_get_options
Fine with me. This was just the hint I was looking for. If you don't
mind, I will mail a new patch for this case later.
S°
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 23:24 [PATCH] via-velocity: earlier name allocation Sven Hartge
2008-10-23 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-10-23 7:29 ` Sven Hartge [this message]
2008-10-23 23:03 ` [PATCH v2] via-velocity: use driver string instead of dev->name before register_netdev() Sven Hartge
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