From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, patrakov@ums.usu.ru,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: hotplug napi race cleanup
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:43:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060426.024305.122924499.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060424152341.094b72d8@localhost.localdomain>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:23:41 -0700
> This follows after the earlier two patches.
>
> Change the initialization of the class device portion of the net device
> to be done earlier, so that any races before registration completes are
> harmless. Add a mutex to avoid changes to netdevice during the
> class device registration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Once Greg KH puts in the necessary infrastructure patches, I'll put
this one in too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-26 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-04-21 17:25 ` Hotplug race on name change Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-22 0:28 ` Herbert Xu
2006-04-24 22:23 ` [PATCH] netdev: hotplug napi race cleanup Stephen Hemminger
2006-04-25 1:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-26 9:43 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-05-07 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-08 16:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-08 18:37 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-08 19:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
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