Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 BUG: register_netdevice() issue as (ab)used by ISDN

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 17:58:36 +0200

> On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 07:20:37PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:17:24PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > > I thus decided to now try plain 2.6.23-rc8 whether it's "corrupted", too.
> > 
> > OK, after 3 hours of compilation the ONLY datapoint I can give right now is:
> > 1 (one) boot on 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 had the BUG in /var/log/messages,
> > 1 (one) boot on 2.6.23-rc8 did NOT have it.
> > 
> > The two .config:s (I did a make oldconfig when going back to
> > non-mm2) don't seem to have any relevant differences.
> > 
> > I could offer to do more testing on this machine,
> > but this carries a slight risk for me since I (personally) won't have physical
> > access to it for a couple days and some people will kill me if the main
> > internet gateway happened to go down unfixably. ;)
> >
> 
> You could try following patch with 2.6.23-rc8-mm2, it change I4L to use
> alloc_netdev().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>

I've added this patch to net-2.6.24, thanks Karsten!