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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:47:46 -0400
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Auke Kok wrote:
> To assure the symmetry of poll enable/disable in up/down, we should
> initialize the netdevice to be poll_disabled at load time. Doing
> this after register_netdevice leaves us open to another race, so
> lets move all the netif_* calls above register_netdevice so the
> stack starts out how we expect it to be.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Cc: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   11 +++++++----
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

applied to #upstream-fixes