netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: don't use netdev_[dbg, info, ..] before net

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Message-Id: <20170116.145240.496347319342609740.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:52:40 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: stmmac: don't use netdev_[dbg, info, ..] before
 net_device is registered

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:19:00 +0100

> Don't use netdev_info and friends before the net_device is registered.
> This avoids ugly messages like
> "meson8b-dwmac c9410000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized):
> Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Indeed, this is a side-effect of the MDIO vs. register_netdev race fix
that went in the other week.

Applied, thanks.