netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] [NET]: Call uninit if necessary in register

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Message-Id: <20070730.162955.38321755.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] [NET]: Call uninit if necessary in
 register_netdevice

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:09:08 +0800

> [NET]: Call uninit if necessary in register_netdevice
> 
> This patch makes register_netdevice call dev->uninit if the regsitration
> fails after dev->init has completed successfully.  Very few drivers use
> the init/uninit calls but at least one (drivers/net/wan/sealevel.c) may
> leak without this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Looks great, applied.
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