netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: disallow to use net_assign

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Message-ID: <m1pr1k5tqr.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:02:52 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	jpirko@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: disallow to use net_assign_generic externally

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> writes:

> From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:40:47 +0200
>
>> Now there's no need to use this fuction directly because it's handled by
>> register_pernet_device. So to make this simple and easy to understand,
>> make this static to do not tempt potentional users.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
>
> Looks reasonable, applied thanks Jiri.

Agreed (apologies for not replying sooner I lost track of this one).

It looks like having that having a choice on how to implement things
simply lead to bugs.

Eric

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