netdev - Re: [NET-2.6.24][VETH][patch 1/1] fix bad netif_carrier

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Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:48:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlezcano@...ibm.com
Cc:	xemul@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET-2.6.24][VETH][patch 1/1] fix bad netif_carrier_off place

From: dlezcano@...ibm.com
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:38:22 +0200

> From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
> 
> If the netif_carrier_off is called before register_netdev
> that will use and generate an event for a non initialized network
> device and that leads to a Oops.
> 
> I moved the netif_carrier_off from the setup function after each 
> register_netdev call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.
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