From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757988AbZEBRFs (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 13:05:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755386AbZEBRFh (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 13:05:37 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:52945 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752927AbZEBRFg (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 13:05:36 -0400 Message-ID: <49FC7D5E.6050203@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 13:05:34 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lubomir Rintel CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not register ne2k-pci device until initialized References: <1241281735.2641.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1241281735.2641.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Lubomir Rintel wrote: > Doing it in reverse order causes uevent to be sent before > we have a MAC address, which confuses udev. > > Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Good spotting, that fixes a clear startup race