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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:37:15 +0100 From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> To: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: [0/6] Allow registration/change name notifications to fail On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:07:25 +0800 Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote: > Hi Dave: > > This series of patches adds support to let netdev registration > and change name events to fail. Failures of the former kind > prevents the device from registered while the latter attempts > to roll back the change (which unfortunately can also fail). > > If the failure occurs while a netdev is being registered, > then the registration as a whole will fail. If it occurs > when a protocol is being registered, then that protocol > will fail to register instead. > > Having this allows us to flag allocations failures in a > meaningful way rather than letting the next action that > requires what is allocated to flag the failure. > > In particular, this allows the reporting of failures to > allocate the IPv4/IPv6 device objects. > > Cheers, Thanks for looking at this, are there bugs this fixes so it should go to stable? - 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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