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Date:	Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:29:23 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: introduce NETDEV_POST_INIT notifier

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:21 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> For various purposes including a wireless extensions
> bugfix, we need to hook into the netdev creation before
> before netdev_register_kobject(). This will also ease
> doing the dev type assignment that Marcel was working
> on for cfg80211 drivers w/o touching them all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
> ---
> I decided that it doesn't make a lot of sense to be after ndo_init but
> before the other name/... checks.

Ignore this patch please, I have something better. Marcel, feel free to
pick this up once you continue working on your devtype thing.

johannes

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