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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev: hotplug napi race cleanup
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:43:05 -0700 (PDT)
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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.