netdev - Re: NetXen crash in sysfs_create

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Message-Id: <20091218.201400.260092381.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:14:00 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...tta.com
Cc:	bjorn.helgaas@...com, amit.salecha@...gic.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NetXen crash in sysfs_create_file

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:20:54 -0800

> Subject: [PATCH] netxen: use module parameter correctly
> 
> Netxen driver is doing this bogus thing to create a control file.
> This fails if device doesn't exist, and overall is a bad way to do
> the module parameter. Rather than fix borked code, just rewrite.
> Just using a writeable module parameter of 0/1 is the correct way
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied, thanks Stephen.
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