netdev - Re: [PATCH] cxgb4vf: fix crash due to manipulating queues before registration

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dm@...lsio.com
Cc:	leedom@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb4vf: fix crash due to manipulating queues before
 registration

From: "Dimitrios Michailidis" <dm@...lsio.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:36:22 -0700

> Further, I believe moving the call after register_netdev is buggy as
> open can be called after registration and it can clash with the
> queue stopping.  It seems then that these netif_tx_stop_all_queues
> calls have to go now.

This is a good explanation of why no driver should be touching the
queue state before the first ->open() call.
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