netdev - Re: [PATCH] netconsole: fix BUG during net device "upping"

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Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:20:58 -0500
From:	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: fix BUG during net device "upping"

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 12:02 +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> When ndo_open (eg skge_up) function printks something, netconsole decides
> it can use this device because it checks state only (netif_running) which is
> set before ndo_open. Check device flags too.

That's fairly unfortunate semantics for netif_running. But if Dave
agrees that it's reasonable for that to be set to true at this point in
time, then I guess we'll go with it.

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