From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcel Holtmann Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: introduce NETDEV_PRE_INIT notifier Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:11:34 -0700 Message-ID: <1254082294.2659.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1254075999.6583.4.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev , linux-wireless To: Johannes Berg Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1254075999.6583.4.camel-YfaajirXv2244ywRPIzf9A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html