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Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface
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Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Pau Koning <paukoning@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