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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Guo-Fu Tseng <cooldavid@cooldavid.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jme: fix panic on load
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:32:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288542732.2660.57.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101031163428.M61655@cooldavid.org>

Le lundi 01 novembre 2010 à 00:39 +0800, Guo-Fu Tseng a écrit :
> Can this patch be modified to move the netif_stop_queue()
> after register_netdev() ?
> It seems the __QUEUE_STATE_XOFF is not set after the register_netdev.
> The tx_queue was kcalloc() ed without touching state flags.
> 

Real question is : why this netif_stop_queue() was needed at the first
place ?

We believe (David and others), that using before ndo_open() is useless
or a sign of design error.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg145481.html


Refs: commit c117e4a2bb4911

If your driver doesnt work after my change, then another patch is
needed, but not using netif_stop_queue() right after register_netdev()




      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-31 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-31 15:46 [PATCH] jme: fix panic on load Eric Dumazet
2010-10-31 16:34 ` David Miller
2010-10-31 16:39 ` Guo-Fu Tseng
2010-10-31 16:26   ` David Miller
2010-11-01 11:22     ` Guo-Fu Tseng
2010-10-31 16:32   ` Eric Dumazet [this message]

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