netdev - Re: [PATCH] fix hostap registration order

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:47:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mroos@...ux.ee
Cc:	j@...fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix hostap registration order

From: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:19:51 +0200 (EET)

>> > In 2.6.37-rc4, hostap_pci init gives a WARNING with backtrace telling 
>> > that netif_stop_queue is called before register_netdev. Fix it by moving 
>> > this call after register_netdev. Removes the warning and seems to work, 
>> > but why is the call to netif_stop_queue needed at all after 
>> > register_netdev?
>> 
>> It should simply not touch the queue state at all at this point.
>> 
>> Your change would add a race.  At the moment the device is registered
>> it can be brought up, and then your code will eroneously modify
>> the queue state.
> 
> OK, I can make a simpler patch for that but I would like to understand 
> the original reasons for having netif_stop_queue there. Just a relict or 
> still somehow important?

I think it was neither.

The queue state is "don't care" at this point, and always has been,
and a lot of drivers had this unnecessary netif_stop_queue() call
there.
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