From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [0/6] Allow registration/change name notifications to fail
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070726113715.6a4b5af9@oldman.hamilton.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070726090725.GA510@gondor.apana.org.au>
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:07:25 +0800
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> This series of patches adds support to let netdev registration
> and change name events to fail. Failures of the former kind
> prevents the device from registered while the latter attempts
> to roll back the change (which unfortunately can also fail).
>
> If the failure occurs while a netdev is being registered,
> then the registration as a whole will fail. If it occurs
> when a protocol is being registered, then that protocol
> will fail to register instead.
>
> Having this allows us to flag allocations failures in a
> meaningful way rather than letting the next action that
> requires what is allocated to flag the failure.
>
> In particular, this allows the reporting of failures to
> allocate the IPv4/IPv6 device objects.
>
> Cheers,
Thanks for looking at this, are there bugs this fixes so it should
go to stable?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-26 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-26 9:07 [0/6] Allow registration/change name notifications to fail Herbert Xu
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] [NET]: Call uninit if necessary in register_netdevice Herbert Xu
2007-07-30 23:29 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 2/6] [NET]: Take dev_base_lock when moving device name hash list entry Herbert Xu
2007-07-30 23:36 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] [NET] loopback: Panic if registration fails Herbert Xu
2007-07-30 23:38 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] [NET]: Allow netdev REGISTER/CHANGENAME events to fail Herbert Xu
2007-07-31 0:03 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 5/6] [IPV4/IPV6]: Fail registration if inet device construction fails Herbert Xu
2007-07-31 0:05 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 9:09 ` [PATCH 6/6] [IPV6]: Remove circular dependency on if_inet6.h Herbert Xu
2007-07-31 0:06 ` David Miller
2007-07-26 10:37 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-07-26 11:03 ` [0/6] Allow registration/change name notifications to fail Herbert Xu
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