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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:53:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] net/ethernet: ks8851_mll unregister_netdev() before freeing
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To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:15:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:31:29 +0300
> 
> > We added another error condition here, but if we were to hit it then
> > we need to unregister_netdev() before doing the free_netdev().
> > Otherwise we would hit the BUG_ON() in free_netdev():
> > 
> > 	BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED);
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> Applied, but please be explicit that your patch is against one
> tree or another.  This one was for net-next only, but I tried
> initially to apply it to net which failed.

Sorry about that.  Will be more careful in the future.

regards,
dan carpenter