From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: introduce NETDEV_PRE_INIT notifier
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:11:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254082294.2659.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1254075999.6583.4.camel@johannes.local>
Hi Johannes,
> For various purposes including a wireless extensions
> bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation at
> a point before netdev_register_kobject(). It seems
> more generic, however, to have it even earlier. This
> will also ease doing the dev type assignment that
> Marcel was working on generically.
you are beating me to it. I can only second that this is a good idea for
the dev type assignment. Once Dave acks this I can sent a rebased patch
for the dev type stuff for WiFi.
Regards
Marcel
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-27 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-27 18:26 [PATCH 1/2] net: introduce NETDEV_PRE_INIT notifier Johannes Berg
2009-09-27 20:11 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
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