From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bugtrap for network drivers that don't register properly.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:32:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031016163259.231a6817.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031016110417.0774e1c7.shemminger@osdl.org>
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:04:17 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:
> This patch adds checks for network devices that set there statistics pointer
> after registration. It is a common error and has already burned netdev sysfs
> unregister a couple of times. Rather than trapping it on module unload which
> is infrequent and unlikely to be tested on all devices, this patch traps it
> when the device is brought up.
>
> Tested on 2.6.0-test7 by buggering the e100 driver.
Applied, thanks Stephen.
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2003-10-16 18:04 [PATCH] bugtrap for network drivers that don't register properly Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-16 23:32 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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