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Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:37:48 +0800 From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de> To: b.a.t.m.a.n@...ts.open-mesh.org Cc: Pau Koning <paukoning@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org> Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/7] batman-adv: Move soft-interface initialization to ndo_init On Monday, December 24, 2012 23:36:03 Pau Koning wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@...oo.de> wrote: > > On Monday, December 24, 2012 22:22:44 Pau Koning wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org> wrote: > >> > The initialization of an net_device object should be done in the > >> > init/constructor function and not from the outside after the > >> > register_netdevice was done to avoid race conditions. > >> > >> This patchset seems to be similar. Shouldn't it have been part of > >> 3.8-rc1 or got rejected? Neither of it happened in the last month > > > > It was discussed and a decision was made. Please read all mails in this > > thread before making noise. > > What decision? I only see something about Patch 6 and Patch 7: Antonio > Quartulli doesn't want rtnetlink support in batman-adv. I don't see > any other statement about the rest of the patchset. Quoting Antonio: >>> Anyway, I discussed about this together with the others and it seems that a proper solution now is to wait before merging this patchset and fix the current sysfs/rtnl_lock problem first. What do you think? Adding a new API without fixing the current one doesn't sound like a good move. <<< What isn't clear ? Cheers, Marek -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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