From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
"Stephen E. Clark" <sclark46@gte.net>,
lk <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RTNL assert
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:43:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39FDA548.7CDDF63A@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010301505550.14004-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > The rtnetlink lock needs to be taken around
> > register_netdevice(). There should be a function
> > which does these three common steps, but there isn't.
>
> I thought the only difference between register_netdev() and
> register_netdevice() was that one took the rtnl_lock and the other didn't?
And, register_netdev allocates a name for you if necessary...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-30 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-28 3:35 RTNL assert Stephen E. Clark
2000-10-28 10:52 ` Andrew Morton
2000-10-28 14:14 ` Stephen E. Clark
2000-10-28 16:18 ` Andrew Morton
2000-10-28 17:05 ` David S. Miller
2000-10-30 15:11 ` David Woodhouse
2000-10-30 16:43 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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2000-10-28 3:33 Stephen E. Clark
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