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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.70+] tun using alloc_netdev
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
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   From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
   Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 13:27:15 -0700

   > But, register_netdev() is preferred precisely for this reason.
   
   Not possible in this case because device is created off socket
   ioctl so it is called with rtnl_lock
   
So do it by hand.