netdev - Re: [patch 1/1] starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading fails

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:29 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	michael@...fatt.org.nz, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] starfire: clean up properly if firmware loading
 fails

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:58:17 +0000

> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 20:27 -0800, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
>> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
>> 
>> netdev_open() will return without cleaning up net device or hardware state
>> if firmware loading fails.  This results in a BUG() on a second attempt to
>> bring the interface up, reported in
>> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15117>, and probably has even
>> worse effects if the driver is removed afterwards.
> 
> David, please correct the URL above before applying the patch so I don't
> continue to look like an idiot. :-)  It should be
> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15091> as added by Andrew
> below.

Done.
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