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Message-Id: <20090323.011508.140910146.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:15:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jarkao2@...il.com Cc: mpm@...enic.com, marcin.slusarz@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com, stable@...nel.org, rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] netconsole: fix BUG during net device "upping" From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:11:58 +0000 > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:05:41AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com> > > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:04:55 +0000 > > > > > What is the rationale of this decision? printk is a basic tool, > > > especially designed to work in as many places as possible, and > > > netconsole is rather something secondary (sorry Matt)?! > > > > And this basic tool cannot work from the drivers ->open() method. > > And in any function used in the drivers ->open(). BTW, with Marcin's > patch it can... This issue came up before, and after we added the netif_running() check we hit this IIF_UP one and at the time we looked into it and the result we came up with is that you just can't do it in a network driver's ->open() Look up the thread, I'm too lazy... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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