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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] net/ethernet: ks8851_mll unregister_netdev() before
 freeing
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 13:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 09:31:29 +0300

> We added another error condition here, but if we were to hit it then
> we need to unregister_netdev() before doing the free_netdev().
> Otherwise we would hit the BUG_ON() in free_netdev():
> 
> 	BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

Applied, but please be explicit that your patch is against one
tree or another.  This one was for net-next only, but I tried
initially to apply it to net which failed.