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From: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
To: usbatm@lists.infradead.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
	linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] [RFC][PATCH] Very basic sysfs support for ATM devices (updated)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:45:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050207094517.GC2360@katya> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200502071003.09211.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:03:08AM +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> this is a long-standing problem with ATM device initialisation: the device
> becomes available before the struct atm_dev is initialised!
> [...]
> In the past, this race was only a theoretical
> problem for SMP machines; but with your patch it hits everyone.

Indeed.  OTOH at a first glance splitting the ATM device initialisation
API into allocation and registration doesn't look a terribly difficult
thing, it would require fairly local changes in the drivers.

Unless Chas' move to struct net_device is alredy knocking on the door,
of course.

Cheers,
  Roman.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-07  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050119174543.GA2418@katya>
2005-01-21  8:51 ` [RFC][PATCH] Very basic sysfs support for ATM devices (updated) Roman Kagan
2005-02-04 18:11   ` [Linux-ATM-General] " chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-02-04 18:27     ` matthieu castet
2005-02-04 18:50       ` chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-02-04 20:13     ` Roman Kagan
2005-02-06  1:33       ` chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-02-06 19:19         ` Roman Kagan
2005-02-08 15:02           ` chas williams - CONTRACTOR
2005-02-08 16:45             ` Roman Kagan
2005-02-07  9:03       ` Duncan Sands
2005-02-07  9:45         ` Roman Kagan [this message]

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