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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:37:48 -0400 From: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@...com> To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> Cc: jeff@...zik.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 10:22 -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > To assure the symmetry of poll enable/disable in up/down, we should > initialize the netdevice to be poll_disabled at load time. Doing > this after register_netdevice leaves us open to another race, so > lets move all the netif_* calls above register_netdevice so the > stack starts out how we expect it to be. > > Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> > Cc: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@...com> I tested this on my HP Integrity systems and it looks good. thanks, - Doug - 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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