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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/16][BNX2]: Fix race conditions when calling
 register_netdev().
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 13:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 00:29:06 -0700

> [BNX2]: Fix race conditions when calling register_netdev().
>     
> Hot-plug scripts can call bnx2_open() as soon as register_netdev() is
> called in bnx2_init_one().  We need to call pci_set_drvdata() and
> setup everything before calling register_netdev(). netif_carrier_off()
> also needs to be moved to bnx2_open() to avoid race conditions with
> the irq.
>     
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>

Applied.