netdev - Re: [0/6] Allow registration/change name notifications to fail

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Message-ID: <20070726113715.6a4b5af9@oldman.hamilton.local>
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?
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