netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix a race between PCI probe and dev

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Message-ID: <20070201082811.GB1011@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 Feb 2007 09:28:11 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...l.org, jgarzik@...ox.com, bwalle@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix a race between PCI probe and dev_open

Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> :
[...]
> Normally register_netdev should be the very last thing in a probe routine.

Yes. I did not feel safe changing it before 2.6.20.

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Ueimor
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