From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Pau Koning <paukoning@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:37:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201212250337.48595.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANiGF98L_Ca20Eb+qVuX1126rWoeqQzOASshB7c2LQ-Fi7DiXA@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday, December 24, 2012 23:36:03 Pau Koning wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
wrote:
> > On Monday, December 24, 2012 22:22:44 Pau Koning wrote:
> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
wrote:
> >> > The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the
> >> > init/constructor function and not from the outside after the
> >> > register_netdevice was done to avoid race conditions.
> >>
> >> This patchset seems to be similar. Shouldn't it have been part of
> >> 3.8-rc1 or got rejected? Neither of it happened in the last month
> >
> > It was discussed and a decision was made. Please read all mails in this
> > thread before making noise.
>
> What decision? I only see something about Patch 6 and Patch 7: Antonio
> Quartulli doesn't want rtnetlink support in batman-adv. I don't see
> any other statement about the rest of the patchset.
Quoting Antonio:
>>>
Anyway, I discussed about this together with the others and it seems
that a proper solution now is to wait before merging this patchset and fix the
current sysfs/rtnl_lock problem first. What do you think?
Adding a new API without fixing the current one doesn't sound like a good
move.
<<<
What isn't clear ?
Cheers,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-24 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-24 0:02 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/7] batman-adv: Move deinitialization of soft-interface to destructor Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/7] batman-adv: Don't always delete softif when last slave was removed Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/7] batman-adv: Remove slave interfaces before removing master interface Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/7] batman-adv: Allow to postpone softif unregistration Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/7] batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletion Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-01 13:11 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-12-01 13:16 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-01 13:28 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-12-01 13:39 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-01 14:54 ` Antonio Quartulli
2012-11-24 0:02 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 7/7] batman-adv: Allow to modify slaves of soft-interfaces through rntl_link Sven Eckelmann
2012-11-24 20:59 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init David Miller
2012-11-24 21:23 ` Sven Eckelmann
2012-12-24 14:22 ` Pau Koning
2012-12-24 14:37 ` Marek Lindner
2012-12-24 15:36 ` Pau Koning
2012-12-24 19:37 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2012-12-24 23:18 ` Pau Koning
2012-12-25 8:19 ` Marek Lindner
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